NASELLE, Wash. This month’s Finnish movie at the Appelo Archives Center is a comedy. It will be shown at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Center at 1056 State Route 4.

Lapland Odyssey (Napapiirin Sankarit) was produced in 2010. In 2011, it won three Jussi (equivalent of Academy Award) Awards: Best Film (Aleksi Bardy), Best Script (Pekko Pesonen) and Best Direction (Dome Karukoski). It was also nominated for Best Actor (Jussi Vatanen who plays Janne), Best Supporting Actor (Kari Ketonen who plays Pikko-Mikko) and Best Costume Design (Anna Vippunen). It has also won an award from another international organization for Best Cinematography and was nominated for Best Original Score.

The story follows Janne, a man from Lapland in Northern Finland, who ekes out a living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne’s inability to get a grip on life. Janne spent the money Inari had given him to buy a digital TV box. Fed up, Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night heading for Rovaniemi with his two friends to find a box. On their way, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There’s no room to give in to bitterness. The most important thing isn’t success, but rather the journey itself. An added attraction of the film are the scenes of Lapland in winter.

The film is rated R because of nudity and sex. Its run time is 92 minutes. A donation of $5 is requested.

For more about the Appelo Archives Center, visit www.appeloarchives.org