What happens when you cross to radically different disciplines? Perhaps the birth of something great? Kaboom Animation Festival and The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival asked two storytellers to tell a whole new story with the help of an animation. Betal Özay and Fer Rodil have taken on this challenge and are now ready to share their stories with you, in front of the big screen.

Betal Özay 
Betal Özay had been telling stories at courthouses as a lawyer, but decided he had enough of that. His way out: attending the Mezrab Storytelling School. His new storytelling show Goodbye Erdogan just premiered at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival. Inspired by the award-winning short Wicked Girl (2017) by Ayce Kartal, Özay will introduce the evolution of the monster breed on the toxic soils of men's culture by telling three stories that happened in an open-air movie theatre, a military camp and a courtroom.

Fer Rodil
Argentinian comedian and screenwriter Fer Rodil has opinions. But he likes to disguise them as 'entertainment'. But make no mistake: he's always trying to convince you of "boludeces" (google it). You'll find him exaggerating his success abroad to impress Europeans, all while recalling stories about the greatness of the country he once fled from. Rodil will take you on a journey, recreating the lost masterpiece El Apostol, a 1917 animated satire by Argentinian-Italian artist Quirino Cristiani. Unfortunately, that film went up in flames. However, using his Argentinian imagination, Rodil is digging up this lost treasure while also looking back at the country's colourful history.

Trigger warning: references to child abuse

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023