Three recent international films will be presented on Friday nights during spring semester by the College of Lake County Center for International Education. The films will be screened at 7 p.m. in room A162 (Anderson lecture hall) at CLC, 19351 W. Washington St., Grayslake. Admission is free.

The films have subtitles when necessary, include adult content and are not suitable for children. The films are “Police, Adjective” (Romania, 2009) on Feb. 24; “No One Knows About Persian Cats” (Iran, 2009) on March 16; and “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” (France/Germany, 2011) on April 20.

“Police, Adjective” on Feb 24. The Romanian new wave continues to impress with another darkly witty tale of Kafkaesque bureaucracies: here, a small-time cop begins to tire of minor pot busts and dares to question his social function. Like so much in the film, its title has ominous implications: what is it to be a policeman? What does it mean to police? It was a Jury Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

“No One Knows About Persian Cats” (Iran, 2009) on March 16. Billed as a “film that shouldn’t even exist,” this pseudo-documentary puts real Iranian musicians in a quest to secure exit visas for a London music festival, all while trying to replace jailed band-mates and avoid arrest themselves. The film was a Special Jury Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

“Cave of Forgotten Dreams” (France/Germany, 2011) on April 20. Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog continues to explore extremes of human behavior in this fascinating documentary, which claims to depict the earliest preserved arts of any kind: 30,000 year old paintings recently discovered on a cave wall in Southern France. Because the material is so precious, half of the drama derives from Herzog’s limitations, and ingenuity, in filming it.

For more information on the international film series, contact Chris Cooling, CLC film instructor, at (847) 543-2623 or at ccooling@clcillinois.edu.