| The Express | Gary Fleder | United States |
| The First Day of Winter | Mirko Locatelli | Italy |
| The Happening | M. Night Shyamalan | United States |
| The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry | Rich Christiano | United States |
| The Sovereign | Andrey Libenson | Russia |
| Un lac | Philippe Grandrieux | France |
| Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | Germany, United States |
| Verses of Love | Hanung Bramantyo | Indonesia |
| Where the Penguins Fly | Josip Vujčić | Croatia |
| Your Whole Life Ahead of You | Paolo Virzì | Italy |
| A Love | Kwak Kyung-taek | South Korea |
| Autumn Ball | Veiko Õunpuu | Estonia |
| Before the Rains | Santosh Sivan | United Kingdom |
| Boarding Gate | Olivier Assayas | France, Luxembourg |
| Captivity | Roland Joffé | Russia, United States |
| Come, let's dance | Anil Mehta | India |
| Egg | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Greece, Turkey |
| Eichmann | Robert Young | United Kingdom |
| Family Game | Alfredo Arciero | Italy |
| Flawless | Michael Radford | United Kingdom, United States, Luxembourg |
| Gone Baby Gone | — | United States |
| Grindhouse | Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Edgar Wright | United States |
| I, the Other | Mohsen Melliti | Italy |
| Inner City Princess | Rafa Montesinos | Spain, Italy |
| Intimate Enemies | Florent-Emilio Siri | Morocco, France |
| Irina Palm | Sam Garbarski | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg |
| Le Grand Chef | Jeon Yun-su | South Korea |
| Life in a... Metro | Anurag Basu | India |
| Madrigal | Fernando Pérez | Cuba |
| Martian Child | Menno Meyjes | United States |
| Mister Lonely | Harmony Korine | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta | Takahiro Imamura | Japan |
| Paruthiveeran | Ameer Sultan | India |
| Soo | Yoichi Sai | South Korea |
| Stealth X | Olga Popova, Vladimir Potapov | Russia |
| The Class | Ilmar Raag | Estonia |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | France |
| The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams | A. Blaine Miller, Julian Adams | United States |
| The Life Before Her Eyes | Vadim Perelman | United States |
| The Mother of Tears | Dario Argento | United States, Italy |
| The Savages | Tamara Jenkins | United States |
| The Sirat Bridge | — | Azerbaijan |
| Then She Found Me | Helen Hunt | United States |
| Twists of Fate | Jerzy Stuhr | Poland |
| XXY | Lucía Puenzo | France, Spain, Argentina |
| Королёв | Yuri Kara | Russia |
| Affairs | Avdotya Smirnova | Russia |
| Apocalypto | Mel Gibson | United States, Mexico |