| Someone Else's Happiness | Fien Troch | Belgium, Netherlands |
| The Collector | Feliks Falk | Poland |
| The President's Last Bang | Im Sang-soo | South Korea |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Tommy Lee Jones | France, United States, Mexico |
| 17th | Helfi Kardit | Indonesia |
| A Home at the End of the World | Michael Mayer | United States |
| A Rekindled Affair | Carlo Mazzacurati | France, Italy |
| A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| Against the Ropes | Charles S. Dutton | United States |
| Avanim | Raphael Nadjari | France, United States, Israel |
| Broken Bridges | Rafiq Puyya | Azerbaijan |
| Casshern | Kazuaki Kiriya | Japan |
| Cruel Intentions 3 | Scott Ziehl | United States |
| Driving Miss Wealthy | James Yuen | Hong Kong |
| Ek Hasina Thi | Sriram Raghavan | India |
| Finding Neverland | Marc Forster | United Kingdom, United States |
| First Love | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| Happily Ever After | Yvan Attal | France |
| Héctor | Gracia Querejeta | Spain |
| Inside I'm Dancing | Damien O'Donnell | France, United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Izo | Takashi Miike | Japan |
| Kings and Queen | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| Kinsey | Bill Condon | Germany, United States |
| My Nikifor | Krzysztof Krauze | Poland |
| Notre musique | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland |
| Ovunque sei | Michele Placido | Italy |
| Spooked | Geoff Murphy | New Zealand |
| The Chorus | Christophe Barratier | France, Switzerland |
| The Final Cut | Omar Naim | Canada, Germany, United States |
| The Football Factory | Nick Love | United Kingdom |
| The Keys to the House | Gianni Amelio | France, Germany, Italy |
| Two Brothers | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom |
| Täna öösel me ei maga | Ilmar Taska | Estonia |
| Voces inocentes | Luis Mandoki | Mexico |
| A SARs Journey | Shen Dong, Wang Jia | People's Republic of China |
| Bad Inclination | Pierfrancesco Campanella | Italy |
| Beyond Borders | Martin Campbell | Germany, United States |
| Calendar Girls | Nigel Cole | United Kingdom, United States |
| Distant Lights | Hans-Christian Schmid | Germany |
| Gods and Generals | Ronald F. Maxwell | United States |
| How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause | Sébastien Rose | Canada |
| How to Deal | Clare Kilner | United States |
| In the Cut | Jane Campion | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Incantato | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| It's Easier for a Camel... | Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi | France, Italy |
| Kidnapping | Olga Perunovskaya | Russia, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Kromov | Andrey Razenkov | Russia |
| Levity | Ed Solomon | France, United States |