The films at Ramaskrik are presented in two short film programs selected by our programming committee and will be judged by the following jury:

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 her master's degree in film and video production at NTNU. Her short films have been screened at numerous international festivals, including Fantasia, Bucheon (BiFan), and Flickerfest.

Knut Nærum is an author, playwright, and cartoonist. He has published over thirty books across various genres, primarily crime and science fiction, with humor as a common thread. In the horror genre, he has written the novel Monster (2007), the zombie puppet show Is (2012), and the comic book Svanger (2026), illustrated by Karstein Volle. Nærum was a regular panelist on the weekly NRK satire show "Nytt på nytt" from 1999 to 2015.

Jasper Sharp is an author, critic and filmmaker known for his work on Asian cinema. He was the co-founder (with Tom Mes) of the Japanese film website Midnight Eye. His books include The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (2004), joint-written with Mes, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008) and The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (2011). He has directed the documentaries The Creeping Garden (2014), a documentary about plasmodial slime moulds co-directed with Tim Grabham, The J-Horror Virus (2023) with Sarah Appleton, and Splatterfest Exhumed (2024).Now he will turn his attention to European short films as a member of our Méliès d’Argent jury.

For Ramaskrik, it is important to have the jury present during the festival, in the cinema, to watch the films as they are meant to be seen. Furthermore, it is a pleasure for us to host good friends of genre film who are well-qualified to evaluate the short films.