"Ancestral whispers rise from a scarred land"
Elevated Folk Horror
101min / 2025
In Tasmania's eerie wilds, engineers Misha and Myaree face odd disturbances, fraying their mission. Sanity slips as ancestral whispers of a dark past rise, blurring reality and supernatural,
threatening survival in a scarred land.
“Pelverata finds its sense of place through disorienting reverberations of past trauma… confronting us with Australia’s sacred, sullied soil, and the restless ghosts that demand an audience.”– Anton Bitel, Projected Figures (17 November 2025)
“Such a profound and delicate exploration of the psyche and a unique bond between two characters is aptly placed within the varying, ever-changing forest.” – Holly Baker, UK Film Review (18 November 2025)
"The emotion of what you feel is not so much what happens but how all the pieces frame what happens and how they affect you inside." Steve Kopian - Unseen Films ( 28th Nov 2025)
“bursting at the seams with an ominous ambience” and “a great feat for independent, homegrown, Australian cinema,” noting how the Tasmanian wilds become the true main character in a story of eco-folk dread. Dead Northern
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