| Dreams for Sale | Miwa Nishikawa | Japan |
| Purge | Antti Jokinen | Finland |
| Eat Sleep Die | Gabriela Pichler | Sweden |
| Everybody Has a Plan | Ana Piterbarg | Germany, Spain, Argentina |
| Baba | Ali Idrees | Egypt |
| Snabba Cash II | Babak Najafi | Sweden |
| Dolu | Elkhan Jafarov | Azerbaijan |
| Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice | Kunihiko Yuyama | Japan |
| Deranged | Park Jung-woo | South Korea |
| The Way | Emilio Estevez | Spain, United States |
| The Hunter | Daniel Nettheim | Australia |
| 17 Girls | Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin | France |
| Dead Europe | Tony Krawitz | Australia |
| Camion | Rafaël Ouellet | Canada |
| Dallas XXX – A Parody | Andre Madness | United States |
| Thérèse Desqueyroux | Claude Miller | France |
| The Paperboy | Lee Daniels | United States |
| Polisse | Maïwenn | France |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Lasse Hallström | France, United Kingdom |
| Delicacy | David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos | France |
| Bel Ami | Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| A Muse | Jung Ji-woo | South Korea |
| Jack & Diane | Bradley Rust Gray | United States |
| Mona | Ināra Kolmane | Iceland, Latvia |
| Architecture 101 | Lee Yong-ju | South Korea |
| Warrior | Gavin O'Connor | United States |
| Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation | Kathrine Windfeld | Sweden, Denmark |
| Taped | Diederik van Rooijen | Argentina, Netherlands |
| Xoca | Vahid Mustafayev | Azerbaijan |
| August Eighth | Dzhanik Fayziev | Russia |
| The Descendants | Alexander Payne | United States |
| The Kid with a Bike | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | France, Belgium, Italy |
| A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Thierry Binisti | France, Canada, Israel |
| Chronicle | Josh Trank | United Kingdom, United States |
| Papa | Han Ji-seung | South Korea |
| The Grey | Joe Carnahan | United States |
| Red Tails | Anthony Hemingway | United States |
| My Worst Nightmare | Anne Fontaine | France, Belgium |
| Soul Surfer | Sean McNamara | United States |
| Dolphin Tale | Charles Martin Smith | United States |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | United States, Sweden |
| Perfect Sense | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark |
| Shark Night | David R. Ellis | United States |
| Arisan! 2 | Nia Dinata | Indonesia |
| Sinbad | Antón Dobao | Spain |
| Simon and the Oaks | Lisa Ohlin | Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands |
| Anonymous | Roland Emmerich | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Anadolu Kartalları | Ömer Vargı | Turkey |