| Pretty Girl | David Stanley | United States |
| Auto Focus | Paul Schrader | United States |
| Chi-hwa-seon | Im Kwon-taek | South Korea |
| Jim Brown: All-American | Spike Lee | United States |
| Madame Satã | Karim Aïnouz | France, Brazil |
| Roberto Succo | Cédric Kahn | France, Switzerland |
| One Hundred Steps | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | United States |
| Grey Owl | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| The Insider | — | United States |
| 4 Little Girls | Spike Lee | United States |
| Artemisia | Agnès Merlet | France, Germany, Italy |
| Kundun | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Our God's Brother | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland, Italy |
| Private Parts | Betty Thomas | United States |
| Voyage to the Beginning of the World | Manoel de Oliveira | France, Portugal |
| Flynn | Frank Howson | United States, Australia |
| Gotti | Robert Harmon | Canada, United States |
| Michael Collins | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Nasser 56 | Mohammed Fadel | Egypt |
| Yermak | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy, Valery Uskov | Russia |
| The Madness of King George | Nicholas Hytner | United Kingdom |
| American Me | Edward James Olmos | United States |
| John Ford | Andrew Eaton | United Kingdom, United States |
| Once Upon a Time in China II | Tsui Hark | Hong Kong |
| The General | Igor Nikolayev | Russia |
| Jacquot de Nantes | Agnès Varda | France |
| Mobsters | Michael Karbelnikoff | United States |
| Qäzälxan | Shahmar Alakbarov | Soviet Union, Azerbaijan |
| Jiao Yulu | Wang Ji-Xing | People's Republic of China |
| Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | United Kingdom, Germany, Poland |
| Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre | Denis Amar | France |
| The Hostage of Europe | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | France, Poland |
| Lady Jane | Trevor Nunn | United Kingdom |
| Neterpeniye dushi | Valeri Ponomarev | Soviet Union |
| Sweet Dreams | Karel Reisz | United States |
| Jára Cimrman Lying | Ladislav Smoljak | Czechoslovakia |
| Parahyba Mulher Macho | Tizuka Yamasaki | Brazil |
| Hammett | Wim Wenders | United States |
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Herbert Vesely | France, Germany, Austria |
| Larisa | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
| The French Woman | Just Jaeckin | France |
| Nine Days and the Whole Life | Yuri Zanin | Soviet Union |
| The Bronte Sisters | André Téchiné | France |
| American Hot Wax | Floyd Mutrux | United States |
| Chanakya Chandragupta | N. T. Rama Rao | India |
| The Beginning of the Legend | Boris Grigoryev | Soviet Union |
| Nesimi | Hasan Seyidbeyli | Soviet Union |