| Sympathy for Us | Choi Young-seok | South Korea |
| The Pirogue | Moussa Touré | Senegal, France |
| The Repentant | Merzak Allouache | France, Algeria |
| The Torrent | Simon Lavoie | Canada |
| Two Hands to Mouth | Michael DeCarlo | Canada |
| Vanishing Waves | Kristina Buožytė | France, Belgium, Lithuania |
| Vazhakku Enn 18/9 | Balaji Sakthivel | India |
| Viva Belarus | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz | Poland |
| 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Abel Ferrara | France, United States, Switzerland |
| A Stone's Throw Away | Sebastián Hiriart | Mexico |
| Annalisa | Pippo Mezzapesa | Italy |
| Carré blanc | Jean-Baptiste Leonetti | France |
| Christopher and His Kind | Geoffrey Sax | United Kingdom |
| Come Rain, Come Shine | Lee Yun-ki | South Korea |
| Dream House | Jim Sheridan | Canada, United States |
| Dum Maaro Dum | Rohan Sippy | India |
| Familiar Grounds | Stéphane Lafleur | Canada |
| God Bless America | — | United States |
| Ikaw Ang Pag-ibig | Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Philippines |
| Il mio domani | Marina Spada | Italy |
| Indian Rupee | Ranjith | India |
| Ispansi! | Carlos Iglesias Serrano | Spain |
| Journey to Portugal | Sérgio Tréfaut | Brazil, Portugal |
| Là-bas – Criminal Education | Guido Lombardi | Italy |
| Margaret | Kenneth Lonergan | United States |
| Margin Call | J. C. Chandor | United States |
| No. 1 | Atanas Hristoskov | Bulgaria |
| October Baby | Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin | United States |
| Our Idiot Brother | Jesse Peretz | United States |
| Princess and the Pony | Rachel Lee Goldenberg | United States |
| Rose | Wojciech Smarzowski | Poland |
| Singham | Rohit Shetty | India |
| Sleeping Beauty | Julia Leigh | Australia |
| Steppe Man | Shamil Aliyev | Azerbaijan |
| Summer Games | Rolando Colla | Italy, Switzerland |
| Sunny | Kang Hyeong-cheol | South Korea |
| That's What I Am | Michael Pavone | United States |
| The First Man | Gianni Amelio | France, Algeria, Italy |
| The Intouchables | Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache | France |
| The Lady | Luc Besson | France, United Kingdom |
| The Lincoln Lawyer | Brad Furman | United States |
| The Salesman | Sébastien Pilote | Canada |
| The Sky of My Childhood | Rustem Abdrashev | Kazakhstan |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Robert Guédiguian | France |
| The Woman in the Fifth | Paweł Pawlikowski | France, United Kingdom, Poland |
| Vũ khúc ánh trăng | Đặng Thái Huyền | Vietnam |
| Way Back Home | Jerry Lopez Sineneng | Philippines |
| Wetlands | Guy Édoin | Canada |