Actress Amy Adams attends the photocall for the movie 'Arrival' at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy September 1, 2016. Canadian film director Denis Villeneuve said making sci-fi thriller "Arrival", which has premiered in Venice, was the biggest challenge of his career so far because it meant creating a foreign civilization that obeys different kinds of laws. The movie, which also stars Forest Whitaker and Jeremy Renner, is one of 20 U.S.