Antoine Dricot
2023
Belgium
French
fiction
fantastic | queer
24 minutes
Every 21 years, the moon appears in the sky. That night, Élodie and Sophia meet and share a moment of love. While the moon impacts the notion of time provoking a night of mysteries.
Élodie | Maylis Dumon
Sophia | Sophie Maréchal
Anton | Pierre Plume
Milan | Julien Van Boeckel
1st Assistant Director | Adrien Berlandi
Script | Annoa Verbruggen
Location Manager | Ilias Sebagh
Production Designer Costume | Zia Marsiat
Director of photography | Roman Vermeiren
Camera Assistants | Thibaut Egler & Maëlle Corbelet Paradis
Gaffers | Amélie Bailly & Jérémy Coibion
Editor | Annoa Verbruggen
Colorist | Romain Vermeiren
Sound Engineers | Rafael Bekouche & Olivier Jamez
Sound Editor & Sound Mixing | Terri Van Overstraeten
Music Composor | Anthony De Baere
BIFFF - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival - 2022 | Brussels, Belgium
Lumens Short Film Festival - 2023 | Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
Grimmfest - 2023 | Manchester, United Kingdom
Seattle Queer Film Festival - 2023 | Seattle, United States
Le Court en dit Long - 2023 | Paris, France
FERATUM International Fantastic Film Festival - 2023 | Mexico City, Mexico
Aurora International Horror Film Festival - 2024 | Guanajuato, Mexico
Palma Japan International Short Film Festival - 2024 | Tokyo, Japan
CouCourt Mai Garage - 2024 | Etterbeek, Belgium
Festival du film LGBTQIA+ de Verviers - 2025 | Verviers, Belgium
BIFFF - Youth Prize & La Trois (Belgian TV channel) prize
Le Court en dit Long - Best Fantastic Short
7ème Aaaargh Retro Film Festival - Best Short
Antoine Dricot was born in Namur, Belgium. He graduated as a draughtsman after a degree in visual arts, before studying film direction and photography (IAD and ESA LeSeptanteCinq).
Memories of the Moon is his first short film.
Thought as a desire for cinema inspired by directors such as Alfonso Cuarón, Andrei Tarkovski, Michel Gondry and Krzysztof Kieślowski. The themes close to Antoine's heart that he seeks to embody in Memories of the Moon are the relationship with distance, the inescapable transformations in the world and in human relationships, and above all the fear of the passing of time, which he explores through the powers of immersion and identification specific to cinema.
Carried away in a space of time where the timing is never right to find the loved one, Memories of the Moon uses the fantastic as a tool to share with us a moving story of missed love.
