This dark, allegorical political thriller tells the story of a thief who accidentally uncovers a document revealing a post-WWII atrocity and soon finds himself the target of a coldly efficient assassin.

Amidst the multitude of outstanding films offered at this year’s Festival, Landscape #2 is a real find — an involving political thriller replete with classic intrigue and infused with a noirish dread. When burglar Sergej steals a landscape painting from the house of an old Slovenian general, he does so not realizing that it includes a document that implicates the general in a post-WWII atrocity. Decrepit and seemingly benign, the old man retains his military coldness and hires an efficient killer to track Sergej and retrieve the document before it’s released to the public. The thief’s lover and friends soon die as the assassin gets closer and closer to his target. No one is very nice as director Vinko Moderndorfer depicts a horrific world of greed, murder and revenge, and draws parallels between the violent past and the equally unsettling present. (Slovenian with English subtitles) -- Raymond Murray