| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | United States |
| The Power of Silence | Manuel Huerga | Spain |
| Only the Brave | Joseph Kosinski | United States |
| Matilda | Alexei Uchitel | Russia |
| Brawl in Cell Block 99 | Steven Craig Zahler | United States |
| What a Circus! | Lotte Svendsen | Denmark |
| Blue My Mind | Lisa Brühlmann | Switzerland |
| The Book of Henry | Colin Trevorrow | United States |
| The Glass Castle | Destin Daniel Cretton | United States |
| Panic Attack | Paweł Maślona | Poland |
| Lucknow Central | Ranjit Tewari | India |
| The Eternal Road | Antti-Jussi Annila | Finland |
| The Circle | James Ponsoldt | United States |
| The Promise | Sopon Sukdapisit | Thailand |
| Annabelle: Creation | David F. Sandberg | United States |
| Madame Hyde | Serge Bozon | France |
| Miami | Zaida Bergroth | Finland |
| All Eyez on Me | Benny Boom | United States |
| The Founding of an Army | Andrew Lau | People's Republic of China |
| Samanthakamani | Sriram Adittya T | India |
| Nabab | Joydip Mukherjee | Bangladesh |
| Our Time Will Come | Ann Hui | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| 10 Days in Sun City | Adze Ugah | Nigeria |
| I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| The Lost City of Z | James Gray | United States |
| Shin Godzilla | Hideaki Anno | Japan, United States |
| Just To Be Sure | Carine Tardieu | France, Belgium |
| L'Amant double | François Ozon | France |
| Blade of the Immortal | Takashi Miike | United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea |
| Nude | Ravi Jadhav | India |
| American Pastoral | Ewan McGregor | United States |
| Last Days in the Desert | Rodrigo García Márquez | United States |
| First Time | Dmitry Kiselyov | Russia |
| Tu Mo Love Story | Tapas Sargharia | India |
| Flower | Max Winkler | United States |
| Guru | Sudha Kongara Prasad | India |
| Teen Titans: The Judas Contract | Sam Liu | United States |
| Life | Daniel Espinosa | United States |
| Raajakumara | Santhosh Ananddram | India |
| Dear Nathan | Indra Gunawan | Indonesia |
| Being 17 | André Téchiné | France |
| Sleepless | Baran bo Odar | United States |
| Catfight | Onur Tükel | United States |
| The Young Karl Marx | Raoul Peck | France, Germany, Belgium |
| Hidden Figures | Theodore Melfi | United States |
| Aby | Srikanth Murali | India |
| Split | M. Night Shyamalan | United States |
| Freak Show | Trudie Styler | United States |