Rain) is a 2019 Filipino romantic drama film written and directed by Irene Villamor, starring Carlo Aquino and Nadine Lustre.

[1] The film, which uses elements of magic realism in its storytelling, is a coming-of-age story about a young woman named Maya, who grew up alternately fascinated and fearful of the rain, stalked by storms and the “tikbalang” (the half-horse, half-human creature).

The idea for the character of Maya originated from a five-minute narrative Villamor made as a film student of the University of the Philippines in 1999.

[2] The project is about a girl named Maya whose dream was to climb a tree in their backyard, but her mother would always catch and reprimand her.

[5] Villamor cites books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende as some of the works that influenced her while writing the story.

[6] On June 20, 2018, a story conference was made by Viva Entertainment to announce the new film entitled Ulan which was to star Nadine Lustre and Xian Lim, together with Marco Gumabao and AJ Muhlach.

[10] Villamor describes Lustre, who plays the lead role of Maya, as “a modern Filipina and really has that depth to understand concepts like this.

[14] In the end, the inspiration for the final look came from the papier mache works of the artisans they encountered while filming in Pila, Laguna.

He further described it as "often beautifully meandering" and said that it "doesn’t easily surrender to expected emotions, evoking joy and hope out of tragedy".

He gave credit to Villamor for creating "a modern day fairytale that highlights the importance of our capacity for dreams and fantasy".

He went on to praise Lustre for giving a "wonderfully measured performance that allows her to shift along with the film’s transitions to its many different genres".