Director Roar Uthaug will be joining us for the anniversary screening of Cold Prey (Fritt Vilt). The film marked the beginning of an outstanding career in genre cinema, leading to acclaimed productions such as Escape (Flukt), The Wave (Bølgen), Tomb Raider, and, most notably, the Netflix hits Troll and Troll 2.

Uthaug is currently working on new horror projects, including a backpacker horror film set in Thailand, as well as several new Nordic productions. We may even get to hear more about these exciting projects during his visit to Ramaskrik.

Actor Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, the star of Cold Prey (Fritt Vilt), will be joining us for the anniversary celebration. She has a long and distinguished career in film and television, both in Norway and internationally.

Horror fans will of course know her from the excellent sequel Cold Prey 2 (Fritt Vilt 2), but her genre credits also include Chernobyl Diaries, ABCs of Death 2, Hellfjord, and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. She has also appeared in popular television series such as Westworld, La Palma, and, most recently, Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole. Over the years, she has firmly established herself as one of Norway’s leading screen stars.

Knut Nærum (b. 1961) is an author, playwright, and cartoonist. He has published more than thirty books across a variety of genres, primarily crime fiction and science fiction, with humor as a common thread throughout his work. Within the horror genre, he has written the novel Monster (2007), the zombie puppet theatre production Is (2012), and the graphic novel Svanger (2026), illustrated by Karstein Volle.

Nærum was a regular contributor to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s (NRK) weekly satirical television program Nytt på nytt from 1999 to 2015.

At Ramaskrik, Nærum serves as a jury member for the Méliès d’Argent competition.

Astrid Thorvaldsen is a genre-loving screenwriter and director based in Trondheim. In 2014, she attended Ramaskrik with the horror film Utburd, which she directed as part of a Master’s degree in Film and Video Production at NTNU.

Her short films have screened at numerous international festivals, including Fantasia, Bucheon (BiFan), and Flickerfest. Her graduation film from the National Film and Television School in England, the horror Western Who Goes There?, was nominated for a Student BAFTA and won a Royal Television Society Award. The film is now distributed by horror channel Alter and is in development as a feature film in London.

At Ramaskrik, Thorvaldsen serves as a jury member for the Méliès d’Argent competition.

Corin Hardy is a British director who first became known to us at Ramaskrik in 2015, when he attended the festival with his debut feature film, The Hallow. Since then, he has gone on to direct The Nun in the Conjuring universe, the acclaimed TV series Gangs of London, and, most recently, the horror film Whistle.

From an early age, Hardy developed a distinctive dark visual style, creating monsters, animations and Super-8 horror films before studying Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art. He went on to direct award-winning music videos for artists including The Prodigy, Keane, The Horrors, Paolo Nutini and Ed Sheeran, before making his feature debut with The Hallow, which premiered at Sundance and earned international acclaim.

The Nun became the highest-grossing film in the Conjuring franchise at the time, while Gangs of London became one of Sky’s most successful and binge-watched series. His latest film, Whistle, premiered as the closing-night film at Fantastic Fest in 2025 and was released theatrically in 2026.

Hardy is a good friend of Ramaskrik and joins us this year as a member of the Méliès d’argent jury. He will also introduce a special screening of Whistle.

And who knows, maybe there’ll be some other fun surprises along the way!