The Venice film festival opens on 31 August and runs until 10 September.
American cinema has secured a pre-eminent position in the line-up of the 2016 Venice film festival, with new films from Terrence Malick, Tom Ford, Damien Chazelle and Derek Cianfrance among the highlights of the competition that was announced on Thursday.
Venice has also picked The Bad Batch, the second film by Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour.
Also selected for competition is Arrival, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s first film since scoring a commercial and critical smash with Sicario.