| The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen | United States |
| The Tailor of Panama | John Boorman | Ireland, United States |
| Workers, Peasants | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | France, Italy |
| Canone Inverso | Ricky Tognazzi | Italy |
| Chunhyang | Im Kwon-taek | South Korea |
| Confort moderne | Dominique Choisy | France |
| Confusion of Genders | Ilan Duran Cohen | France |
| Denti | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy |
| Gossip | Davis Guggenheim | United States |
| I Prefer the Sound of the Sea | Mimmo Calopresti | France, Italy |
| La Chambre obscure | Marie-Christine Questerbert | France |
| Mission Kashmir | Vidhu Vinod Chopra | India |
| No Place to Go | Oskar Roehler | Germany |
| One Hundred Steps | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| Peppermint Candy | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| Price of Glory | Carlos Avila | United States |
| Romeo Must Die | Andrzej Bartkowiak | United States |
| Shadow of the Vampire | E. Elias Merhige | United Kingdom, United States, Luxembourg |
| Shiki-Jitsu | Hideaki Anno | Japan |
| The Beach | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, United States, Thailand |
| The House of Mirth | Terence Davies | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| The Monkey's Mask | Samantha Lang | France, Canada, Japan, Italy, Australia |
| The Town Is Quiet | Robert Guédiguian | France |
| The Widow of Saint-Pierre | Patrice Leconte | France, Canada |
| To Matthieu | Xavier Beauvois | France |
| Turn It Up | Robert Adetuyi | United States |
| Waking the Dead | Keith Gordon | United States |
| What's Cooking? | Gurinder Chadha | United Kingdom, United States |
| Where the Money Is | Marek Kanievska | United States |
| You're the One | José Luis Garci | Spain |
| Aa Ab Laut Chalen | — | India |
| Anywhere but Here | Wayne Wang | United States |
| Bad Company | Jean-Pierre Améris | France |
| Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | United States |
| Clouds of May | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
| Devi | Kodi Ramakrishna | India |
| Dưới tán rừng lặng lẽ | Nguyễn Quang | Vietnam |
| El visitante | Eduardo Castro Caravia | Argentina |
| Furia | Alexandre Aja | France |
| Grey Owl | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Holy Smoke! | Jane Campion | United States, Australia |
| If... Dog... Rabbit... | Matthew Modine | United States |
| In Too Deep | Michael Rymer | United States |
| Jill Rips | Anthony Hickox | United States |
| Joan of Arc | Christian Duguay | Canada |
| Judy Berlin | Eric Mendelsohn | United States |
| Letter to America | Kira Muratova | Ukraine |
| Not of this World | Giuseppe Piccioni | Italy |