| Silent Friend | Ildikó Enyedi | drama film | France, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong |
| An Unfinished Film | Lou Ye | — | Germany, Singapore |
| Behind the Haystacks | Asimina Proedrou | drama film | Germany, North Macedonia, Greece |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire | Daniel Alfredson | drama film, thriller film, crime film | Germany, Sweden, Denmark |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Code Unknown | Michael Haneke | drama film | France, Germany, Romania |
| Fassbinder's Women | Rosa von Praunheim | LGBTQ-related film, documentary film | Germany |
| Der Mörder | Ottokar Runze | drama film | Germany |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| Blue Skin | Andrea Schuler, Oliver Ruts | documentary film | Germany |
| Distant Lights | Hans-Christian Schmid | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| No Place to Go | Oskar Roehler | drama film | Germany |
| The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time | Alexander Kluge | documentary film | Germany |
| Madame Butterfly | Frédéric Mitterrand | drama film, musical film | France, Germany |
| Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea | Karen Gevorkian | drama film | Soviet Union, Germany |
| The Garden | Derek Jarman | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| Jenatsch | Daniel Schmid | drama film, fantasy film | France, Germany, Switzerland |
| Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia TH Torrini | drama film | Italy |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | drama film, vampire film | France, Germany |
| The Hunters | Thodoros Angelopoulos | drama film | France, Greece |