| Animals in Love | Laurent Charbonnier | France |
| Heckler | Michael Addis | United States |
| An Inconvenient Truth...Or Convenient Fiction? | Steven F. Hayward | United States |
| Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe | Julian Benedikt | Germany |
| The Road to Guantanamo | Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Knowledge Is for Acting Upon: The Manhattan Raid | — | Pakistan |
| It's Hard to Be a Rock'n Roller | Gunhild Asting | Norway |
| March of the Penguins | Luc Jacquet | France |
| Rebels with a Camera | Denys Desjardins | Canada |
| How Happy Can You Be? | Line Hatland | Norway |
| Angry Monk - Reflections on Tibet | Luc Schaedler | Switzerland |
| Ukraine in Flames | Yuliya Solntseva, Oleksandr Dovzhenko | Soviet Union |
| Comandante | Oliver Stone | Spain, United States |
| El Milagro de Candeal | Fernando Trueba | Spain |
| Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock | United States |
| The Truth in Acting | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Germany |
| Gunnar Goes Comfortable | Gunnar Hall Jensen | Norway |
| Suite Habana | Fernando Pérez | Cuba |
| Et steinkast unna | Line Halvorsen | Norway |
| Volkspolizei / 1985 | Thomas Heise | East Germany |
| Ayurveda - Art of Being | Pan Nalin | Germany, Switzerland, India |
| One Day in September | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland |
| Fassbinder's Women | Rosa von Praunheim | Germany |
| La espalda del mundo | Javier Corcuera | Spain |
| Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle | Jon H. Else | United States |
| Der Todesflug der IL 62 | — | Germany |
| Looking for Richard | Al Pacino | United States |
| Frank and Ollie | Theodore Thomas | United States |
| Bells from the Deep | Werner Herzog | Germany, United States |
| Big Boys Don't Cry | Sigve Endresen | Norway |
| Thirty Years of Maximum R&B Live | — | United States |
| Anna: 6 - 18 | Nikita Mikhalkov | France, Russia |
| Hoop Dreams | Steve James | United States |
| Playtime | Claire Simon | France |
| A Brief History of Time | Errol Morris | United States |
| Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophuls | France, Germany, United States |
| What we remember | Roland Steiner | East Germany |
| Anarchism in America | Joel Sucher, Steven Fischler | United States |
| Model | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
| A Labour of Sharing | Sylvie Van Brabant, Serge Giguère, Louise Dugal | Canada |
| Heiligabend auf St. Pauli | Klaus Wildenhahn | Germany |
| The Pleasure and the Mystery | Enzo Peri | Italy |
| Jungle Cat | James Algar | United States |
| Aku-Aku | Thor Heyerdahl | Norway, Sweden |
| White Wilderness | James Algar | United States |
| Havråtunet | Sigurd Agnell | Norway |
| South Pacific Playground | Ken G. Hall | Australia |
| Music in Our Schools | Ken G. Hall | Australia |