The slow-burn, Tasmanian-set thriller Pelverata will release direct to streaming in 2026, deliberately skipping the festival circuit so general audiences can experience and enjoy the film first.

Pelverata follows two engineers, Misha (Charley Hur) and Myaree (Carina Parsons), who arrive for a routine forest survey. The land answers back. Folklore surfaces. Reality thins.

Shot in remote locations with long takes and practical effects, Pelverata trades jump scares for atmosphere—keeping viewers with the characters, never ahead, never at ease.

The film’s unease is rooted in Tasmania’s colonial past. Recent scholarship has mapped scores of frontier massacres long minimised in official histories, treating the landscape as an archive of trauma. Pelverata asks whether country can hold memory—and what silence preserves.

“We’ve traded festival buzz for access,” says Pelverata writer and director Mark Lipkin.

“We skipped festivals for immediate access so anyone can unplug, breathe, and let the quiet terrify. Small offline acts ripple outward. That’s the revolution we care about.”

Pelverata will be available to stream in Australia in 2026.

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