| The Firing Squad | Tim Chey | United States |
| The Instigators | Doug Liman | United States |
| Sommartider | Per Simonsson | Sweden |
| Blue Fiddle | Anne McCabe | Ireland |
| The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| A Sacrifice | Jordan Scott | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Ghost Cat Anzu | Yōko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita | France, Japan |
| Ipar adalah Maut | Hanung Bramantyo | Indonesia |
| A Part of You | Sigge Eklund | Sweden |
| Young Woman and the Sea | Joachim Rønning | United States |
| Typhoon Club | Shinji Sōmai | Japan |
| Caught by the Tides | Jia Zhangke | People's Republic of China |
| When the Light Breaks | Rúnar Rúnarsson | France, Iceland, Croatia, Netherlands |
| The Fall Guy | David Leitch | United States |
| A Stranger in the Woods | József Gallai | Hungary, United States |
| Unsung Hero | Richard L. Ramsey, Joel Smallbone | United States |
| Civil War | Alex Garland | United Kingdom, United States |
| How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom, Belgium, Greece |
| The Green Deal | Edouard Bergeon | France, Belgium |
| The Glory of Life | Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann | Germany, Austria |
| My Name Is Loh Kiwan | Kim Hee Jin | South Korea |
| Il n'y a pas d'ombre dans le désert | Yossi Aviram | France, Israel |
| Bob Marley: One Love | Reinaldo Marcus Green | United States |
| Boléro | Anne Fontaine | France, Belgium |
| Holy Rosita | Wannes Destoop | Belgium |
| The Master and Margarita | Michael Lockshin | Russia |
| Love Me | Sam Zuchero, Andrew Zuchero | United States |
| I Saw the TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun | United States |
| The Good Teacher | Teddy Lussi-Modeste | France, Belgium |
| A Silence | Joachim Lafosse | France, Belgium, Luxembourg |
| May December | Todd Haynes | United States |
| Kina & Yuk | Guillaume Maidatchevsky | France, Canada, Italy |
| Hammarskjöld | Per Fly | Sweden |
| Single in Seoul | Park Beom-su | South Korea |
| Elaha | Milena Aboyan | Germany |
| Maestro | Bradley Cooper | Canada, United States |
| The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Francis Lawrence | United States |
| Little Girl Blue | Mona Achache | France, Belgium |
| (Ab)normal Desire | Yoshiyuki Kishi | Japan |
| Moving | Shinji Sōmai | Japan |
| Consent | Vanessa Filho | France, Belgium |
| The Optimist | Finn Taylor | United States |
| Born for You | Fabio Mollo | Italy |
| Forgotten Love (film) | Michał Gazda | Poland |
| Sultana's Dream | Isabel Herguera | Germany, Spain |
| A Man of Reason | Jung Woo-sung | South Korea |
| Orisa | Odunlade Jonathan Adekola | Nigeria |
| Jeanne du Barry | Maïwenn | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |