| The Jungle Book | Jacobo Calderón, Juan Logar Jr., Jon Favreau | United States |
| 10 Cloverfield Lane | Dan Trachtenberg | United States |
| I Am Here | Christonikos Tsalikis | United States |
| God's Not Dead 2 | Harold Cronk | United States |
| Beauty and the Best | — | Indonesia |
| Greetings from Fukushima | Doris Dörrie | Germany |
| 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Michael Bay | United States |
| The Clan | Pablo Trapero | Spain, Argentina |
| Neerja | Ram Madhvani | India |
| Like for Likes | Park Hyun-jin | South Korea |
| Creed | Ryan Coogler | United States |
| The Big Short | Adam McKay | United States |
| Mr. Pig | Diego Luna | Mexico |
| Suite française | Saul Dibb | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| Legend | Brian Helgeland | France, United Kingdom |
| The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu | United States |
| 18 Meals | Jorge Coira | Spain, Argentina |
| Marguerite | Xavier Giannoli | France, Czech Republic, Belgium |
| Carol | Todd Haynes | United Kingdom, United States |
| Our Little Sister | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| The Fencer | Klaus Härö | Germany, Estonia, Finland |
| The Girl King | Mika Kaurismäki | Canada, Germany, Finland, Sweden |
| Sand Dollars | Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán | Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico |
| The Duke of Burgundy | Peter Strickland | United Kingdom, Hungary |
| Youth | Paolo Sorrentino | France, United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland |
| The Sound of a Flower | Lee Jong-pil | South Korea |
| Where Atilla Passes | Onur Karaman | Canada |
| Regression | Alejandro Amenábar | Canada, Spain, United States |
| Crimson Peak | Guillermo del Toro | Canada, United States, Mexico |
| Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, United States |
| Inside Out | Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen | United States |
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar |
| Steel Flower | Park Suk-young | South Korea |
| The Walk | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| A Childhood | Philippe Claudel | France |
| 3 Generations | Gaby Dellal | United States |
| Café Derby | Lenny Van Wesemael | Belgium |
| The Night of the Prophet | — | South Korea |
| Wolf Totem | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, People's Republic of China |
| The Black Hen | Min Bahadur Bham | France, Germany, Switzerland, Nepal |
| Gangster | Fajar Nugros | Indonesia |
| Downriver | Grant Scicluna | Australia |
| The Prophet | Joann Sfar, Nina Paley, Roger Allers, Bill Plympton | France, Canada, United States |
| Mr. Holmes | Bill Condon | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| The Sound of Trees | François Péloquin | Canada |
| Terminator Genisys | Alan Taylor | United States |
| Trash | Stephen Daldry | United Kingdom |
| Nothing in Return | Daniel Guzmán | Spain |