| Tulipany | Jacek Borcuch | Poland |
| Code 46 | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Wayne Wang | United States |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Finding Friends | Arne Lindtner Næss | Norway |
| For the Living and the Dead | Kari Paljakka | Finland |
| Paradise Now | Hany Abu-Assad | France, Germany, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory, Netherlands, Israel |
| Những chuyến đò ngang | — | Vietnam |
| Flight of the Phoenix | John Moore | United States |
| Closer | Mike Nichols | United States |
| 36 Quai des Orfèvres | Olivier Marchal | France, Italy |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| The Hidden Blade | Yōji Yamada | Japan |
| American Splendor | Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | United States |
| The Door in the Floor | Kip Williams | United States |
| Anand | Sekhar Kammula | India |
| Hàng xóm | — | Vietnam |
| Primer | Shane Carruth | United States |
| Springtime | Ryu Jang-ha | South Korea |
| Ladder 49 | Jay Russell | United States |
| The Welts | Magdalena Piekorz | Poland |
| Zhang Side | Yin Li | People's Republic of China |
| The Color of Milk | Torun Lian | Norway |
| Trench Road | Veikko Aaltonen | Finland |
| The Ninth Day | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, Czech Republic, Luxembourg |
| Before Sunset | Richard Linklater | United States |
| Low Life | Im Kwon-taek | South Korea |
| Troy | Wolfgang Petersen | United Kingdom, Malta, United States |
| Look at Me | Agnès Jaoui | France, Italy |
| The Consequences of Love | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| Raising Helen | Garry Marshall | United States |
| South | Martin Koolhoven | Netherlands |
| The Punisher | Jonathan Hensleigh | United States |
| Elephant | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| My Bittersweet Taiwan | Zheng Dongtian | People's Republic of China |
| Dance With Solitude | — | South Korea |
| Secret Window | David Koepp | United States |
| The Girl Next Door | Luke Greenfield | United States |
| Miracle | Gavin O'Connor | United States |
| D.E.B.S. | Angela Robinson | United States |
| Time of the Wolf | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Austria |
| Chameli | Anant Balani, Sudhir Mishra | India |
| I'm Not Scared | Gabriele Salvatores | United Kingdom, Spain, Italy |
| The Human Stain | Robert Benton | France, Germany, United States |
| Honey | Bille Woodruff | United States |
| His Brother | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield | Lee Joon-ik | South Korea |
| Runaway Jury | Gary Fleder | United States |