Carloto Cotta

Edward and his girlfriend Riley embark on a journey to Portugal to meet Edward’s long-lost family. Arriving at their magnificent mountain villa, Edward meets his mother and twin brother and is eager to connect with his origins. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward soon discovers he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.

It's here that the trilogy is both at its most playful and focused. Having escaped the palace of the king, Xerazade explores a seaside landscape where she encounters, among others, a "wind genie" and a daft suitor. In this chapter, it's as if the historical backdrop, the modern world and the disparate modes of storytelling collapse into one another. Movingly and unexpectedly, the last gesture of Arabian Nights is to scale back its scope and provide a disarmingly modest and poignant grace note on which one of contemporary cinema's new masterpieces can close.

A temperamental old woman, her Cape Verdean maid and a neighbour devoted to social causes live on the same floor of a Lisbon apartment building. When the old lady dies, the other two learn of an episode from her past: a tale of love and crime set in an Africa straight from the world of adventure films.

After a heart attack, retired general Jose Mendieta is haunted by his past work aiding a CIA-backed campaign of political repression in Latin America.