| Little Joe | Jessica Hausner | drama film, science fiction film |
| Sprite Sisters – Four Enchanted Sisters | Sven Unterwaldt | fantasy film |
| Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Thomas Clay | drama film, thriller film, historical drama |
| Never Look Away | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | drama film |
| Gipsy Queen | Hüseyin Tabak | drama film, boxing film |
| High Life | Claire Denis | arthouse science fiction film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film |
| The Aftermath | James Kent | drama film |
| Transit | Christian Petzold | drama film |
| Gundermann | Andreas Dresen | drama film, biographical film, musical film |
| Maya the Bee: The Honey Games | Noel Cleary, Sergio Delfino | comedy film, adventure film |
| Asphaltgorillas | Detlev Buck | crime film |
| How to Be Really Bad | Marco Petry | comedy film |
| 3 Days in Quiberon | Emily Atef | drama film, biographical film |
| The Field Guide To Evil | Ashim Ahluwalia | horror film |
| Supa Modo | Likarion Wainaina | drama film |
| Shiverstone Castle 2 | Ralf Huettner | family film, children's film |
| Tehran Taboo | Ali Soozandeh | drama film |
| Fack ju Göhte 3 | Bora Dağtekin | comedy film |
| Renegades | Steven Quale | thriller film |
| Sommerfest | Sönke Wortmann | comedy drama |
| They called him Bulldozer | Karl-Martin Pold | documentary film |
| Luna | Khaled Kaissar | thriller film |
| The Young Karl Marx | Raoul Peck | drama film, historical film, biographical film |
| Salt and Fire | Werner Herzog | thriller film |
| Alone in Berlin | Vincent Perez | drama film, war film, biographical film |
| Pettersson and Findus 2 | Ali Samadi Ahadi | family film, live-action/animated film, Christmas film |
| The Impossible Picture | Sandra Wollner | drama film |
| Heart of Stone | Johannes Naber | cinematic fairy tale |
| Wunderlich's World | Dani Levy | comedy film |
| Layla M. | Mijke de Jong | drama film |
| Greetings from Fukushima | Doris Dörrie | drama film |
| The Fencer | Klaus Härö | drama film, sport film |
| The Girl King | Mika Kaurismäki | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Fack ju Göhte 2 | Bora Dağtekin | comedy film |
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | coming-of-age film, drama film, independent film |
| The Black Hen | Min Bahadur Bham | drama film |
| The Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis | drama film, trial film, biographical film |
| Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury | Ask Hasselbalch | family film, comedy film, children's film, adventure film |
| Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents | Stina Werenfels | drama film |
| Land of Storms | Ádám Császi | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Heli | Amat Escalante | drama film |
| Monuments Men | George Clooney | drama film, war film, biographical film |
| Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | art film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Fack ju Göhte | Bora Dağtekin | comedy film |
| Rush | Ron Howard | drama film, sport film, action film, biographical film |
| The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Harald Zwart | romance film, urban fantasy, mystery film, drama film, fantasy film, action film, LGBTQ-related film, vampire film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| The Role | Konstantin Lopushansky | drama film, historical drama |
| 3096 Days | Sherry Hormann | drama film, biographical film |