| The Train | Marie Brassard | Canada |
| Tristes Tropiques | Park Hoon-jung | South Korea |
| Urchin | Harris Dickinson | United Kingdom |
| All of You | William Bridges | United Kingdom |
| Maspalomas | Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi | Spain |
| Hijacked | Trần Hàm | Vietnam |
| Two Pianos | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| The Lost Bus | Paul Greengrass | United States |
| Be Loved | Elisa Amoruso | Italy |
| Strange River | Jaume Claret Muxart | Germany, Spain |
| Arabia Kadali | — | India |
| Unforgivable | Julia Ford | United Kingdom |
| Queen of Coal | Agustina Macri | Spain, Argentina |
| Everything's Going to Be Great | Jon S. Baird | Canada, United States |
| Sirāt | Óliver Laxe | France, Spain |
| Bro | Filip Špinka | Czech Republic |
| Homebound | Neeraj Ghaywan | India |
| A Private Life | Rebecca Zlotowski | France |
| Nino | Pauline Loquès | France |
| Kraken | Nikolai Lebedev | Russia |
| The Amateur | James Hawes | United States |
| Holy Cow | Louise Courvoisier | France |
| The Match | Kim Hyeong-ju | South Korea |
| The Garden of Earthly Delights | Morgan Knibbe | Belgium, Netherlands, Philippines |
| The Stepmother's Bond | Yolanda Centeno | Spain |
| Goat Girl | Ana Asensio | Romania, Spain |
| The Electric State | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | United States |
| The Last Supper | Mauro Borrelli | United States |
| Gangstas | Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah | Belgium |
| Broken Rage | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Ambyar Mak Byar | — | Indonesia |
| All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | India |
| Green Bones | Zig Madamba Dulay | Philippines |
| Blow Down | Roberto F. Canuto, Xu Xiaoxi | Spain |
| Shontaan | Raj Chakraborty | Bangladesh |
| Naples to New York | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy |
| The Wild Robot | Chris Sanders | United States |
| The Children's Train | Cristina Comencini | Italy |
| The Room Next Door | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| A Normal Family | Hur Jin-ho | South Korea |
| Undercover | Arantxa Echevarría | Spain |
| Silvio (movie) | — | Brazil |
| Under the Volcano | Damian Kocur | Poland |
| The Brutalist | Brady Corbet | United Kingdom, United States |
| In Her Place | Maite Alberdi | Chile |
| Maria | Pablo Larraín | United Kingdom, Germany, Chile, Italy |
| The Life Apart | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte | France |