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CULION

By Alvin YAPAN

FEAST FOUNDATION - as SALES All rights

Drama - Completed 2019

Because love is contagious.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES
- Languages
- FILIPINO
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Alvin YAPAN
- Writer(s)
- Ricardo LEE
- Cast
- Iza CALZADO, Meryll SORIANO, Jasmine CURTIS-SMITH
- Producer(s)
- Gillie SING (iOptions Ventures)
- Synopsis
- In the southern part of the Philippines under the American occupation, the island of Culion
  was transformed into a leprosarium and soon became the biggest leper colony in the world.
  Segregated from the rest of the country that is determined to forget them, it became an exile
  for people like Anna, Doris, Ditas, and many others infected with Hansen’s disease. By 1937, still with no cure in sight, Culion eventually became a purgatory for the hopeless and the abandoned within a country also struggling with its own independence. However, after Anna’s unexpected pregnancy, Doris’ innocent infatuation with a foreigner, and the visit of a loved one from Ditas’ past, the three women find new reasons to endure. Amidst the stigma of their illnesses and the brewing of another occupation outside their gates, the three women have to reconcile their newfound hope with the grim inevitability of their future.