| Handsome Harry | Bette Gordon | United States |
| In Darkness | Çağan Irmak | Turkey |
| In Your Veins | Beata Gårdeler | Sweden |
| Kamui Gaiden | Yoichi Sai | Japan |
| Kyō Kara Hitman | Takeshi Yokoi | Japan |
| Little Girl | Rainer Frimmel, Tizza Covi | Italy, Austria |
| Love Khichdi | Srinivas Bhashyam | India |
| Ninja | Isaac Florentine | United States |
| One for the Road | Philippe Godeau | France |
| Paper Man | Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney | United States |
| Powder Blue | Timothy Linh Bui | United States |
| Silent Voices | Léa Fehner | France |
| The Double Hour | Giuseppe Capotondi | Italy |
| The Front Line | Renato De Maria | Italy |
| The Hush | Stefano Incerti | Italy |
| The Informers | Gregor Jordan | Germany, United States |
| The Red Shadows | Francesco Maselli | Italy |
| The Temptation of St. Tony | Veiko Õunpuu | Estonia, Finland, Sweden |
| Unmade Beds | Alexis Dos Santos | United Kingdom |
| Wake Up Sid | — | India |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Spike Jonze | United States |
| Women Without Men | Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat | France, Germany, Austria, Iran |
| A Game for Girls | Matteo Rovere | Italy |
| Ace of Hearts | David Mackay | Canada, United States |
| As God Commands | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy |
| Awakening | Christian Tafdrup | Denmark |
| BABO | Kim Jung-kwon | South Korea |
| Beastie Boys | Yoon Jong-bin | South Korea |
| Birdsong | Albert Serra | Spain |
| Christmas Cottage | Michael Campus | United States |
| Cinka Panna | Dušan Rapoš | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary |
| Dolls & Angels | Nora Hamdi | France |
| Extraordinary Stories | Mariano Llinás | Argentina |
| Farewell Gulsary | Ardak Amirkulov | Kazakhstan |
| Fate | Kim Hae-gon | South Korea |
| Fireproof | Alex Kendrick | United States |
| Happy Together | Geoffrey Enthoven | Belgium |
| Last Stop 174 | Bruno Barreto | France, Brazil |
| Meet the Browns | Tyler Perry | United States |
| My Wife Got Married | Jeong Yoon-soo | South Korea |
| Nothing but the Truth | Rod Lurie | United States |
| Oh Baby | Cassandra Massardi | Indonesia |
| Parc | Arnaud des Pallières | France |
| Race | Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla | India |
| Recount | Jay Roach | United States |
| The Black Balloon | Elissa Down | Australia |
| The Brave Men | Edoardo Winspeare | Italy |
| The Divine Weapon | Kim Yoo-jin | South Korea |