| Sharknado | Anthony C. Ferrante | United States |
| World War Z | Marc Forster | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Role | Konstantin Lopushansky | Russia, Germany, Belarus, Finland |
| Regret! | Dave Schram | Netherlands |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | France, United States |
| Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian | Arnaud Desplechin | France, United States |
| Monsoon Shootout | Amit Kumar | India |
| The Dance of Reality | Alejandro Jodorowsky | France, Chile |
| Ugly | Anurag Kashyap | India |
| Cinta brontosaurus | Fajar Nugros | Indonesia |
| Born to Sing | Lee Jong-pil | South Korea |
| The Major | Yuri Bykov | Russia |
| So Young | Zhao Wei | People's Republic of China |
| The Guilt Trip | Anne Fletcher | United States |
| 42 | Brian Helgeland | United States |
| The Hunt | Thomas Vinterberg | Sweden, Denmark |
| Beautiful Creatures | Richard LaGravenese | United States |
| Eskil & Trinidad | Stephan Apelgren | Sweden |
| Midnight's Children | Deepa Mehta | United Kingdom |
| Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | United States |
| The Best Offer | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| Broken | Rufus Norris | United Kingdom |
| Horizon Sky | Andrei Kureichik | Belarus |
| 3096 Days | Sherry Hormann | Germany |
| Promised Land | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | United States |
| On My Way | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| Le monde nous appartient | Stephan Streker | France, Belgium |
| Dareka no Manazashi | Makoto Shinkai | Japan |
| Flight | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| Love 911 | Jeong Gi-hun | South Korea |
| Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | United Kingdom, United States |
| Back to 1942 | Feng Xiaogang | People's Republic of China |
| The Magic of Belle Isle | Rob Reiner | United States |
| Trouble with the Curve | Robert Lorenz | United States |
| Chasing Mavericks | Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted | United States |
| In the Fog | Sergei Loznitsa | Russia, Germany, Belarus, Latvia, Netherlands |
| Cloud Atlas | Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski | United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, Germany, Spain, United States, Singapore, Hong Kong |
| They Call It Summer | Paolo Franchi | Italy |
| Good Luck. And Take Care of Each Other | Jens Sjögren | Sweden |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | United States |
| Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Spartacus MMXII: The Beginning | Marcus London | United States |
| Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau | Canada |
| Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Lorene Scafaria | United States |
| Liberal Arts | Josh Radnor | United States |
| Stolen | Simon West | United States |
| Venuto al mondo | Sergio Castellitto | Croatia, Spain, Italy |