Akasa Kusum Best Asian Film in Spain

Akasa Kusum (Flowers of the Sky), directed by Prasanna Vithanage, won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at the third Cines del Sur Festival in Granada, Spain. Akasa Kusum shares the award with Before the Burial, by Iranian director Behnam Behzadi. It beat films from India, China, Korea, Palestine, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bangladesh and Iraq.

The film to be released in Sri Lanka in late July 2009, has already won Malini Fonseka the Silver Peacock Award at the Indian International Film Festival held in Goa, for her performance as Sandhya Rani.

Akasa Kusum also won a Special Jury Mention at the Vesoul Film Festival in France and is garnering favourable notices in the world film festival circuit.

Akasa Kusum is a Sri Lankan-Indian co-production, produced by H.D. Premasiri for Sarasavi Cineru and A. Sreekar Prasad for Film Freaks.