| The Story of My Wife | Ildikó Enyedi | France, Germany, Hungary, Italy |
| Feathers | Omar El Zohairy | France, Greece, Netherlands, Egypt |
| After Yang | Kogonada | United States |
| Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | United States |
| The Courier | Dominic Cooke | United Kingdom |
| The Deep House | Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | France |
| In the Heights | Jon M. Chu | Puerto Rico, United States, Dominican Republic |
| Wedding Proposal | Emil Heradi | Indonesia |
| V2. Escape from Hell | Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov | Russia |
| Fatherhood | Paul Weitz | United States |
| The Tunnel | Kim Seong-hun | South Korea |
| Prophetess | Niyi Akinmolayan | Nigeria |
| Tersanjung the Movie | Hanung Bramantyo | Indonesia |
| City of Lies | Brad Furman | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Human Voice | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Moxie | Amy Poehler | United States |
| The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Lee Daniels | United States |
| Palmer | Fisher Stevens | United States |
| Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Jonathan Butterell | United Kingdom, United States |
| Incredible Love | — | Indonesia |
| Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets | Yaniv Raz | United States |
| News of the World | Paul Greengrass | United States |
| Wonder Woman 1984 | Patty Jenkins | United States |
| Generasi 90an: Melankolia | — | Indonesia |
| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | George C. Wolfe | United States |
| Zoya | — | Russia |
| The Barcelona Vampiress | Lluís Danés i Roca | Spain |
| Black Beauty | Ashley Avis | United States |
| Gracious Night | Mika Kaurismäki | Finland |
| Citation | Kunle Afolayan | Nigeria |
| And Tomorrow the Entire World | Julia von Heinz | France, Germany |
| Rawkto Rawhoshyo | Soukarya Ghosal | India |
| Samjin Company English Class | Lee Jong-pil | South Korea |
| Clouds | Justin Baldoni | United States |
| Ginny Weds Sunny | — | India |
| Love Affair(s) | Emmanuel Mouret | France |
| Beans | Tracey Deer | Canada |
| The Eight Hundred | Guan Hu | People's Republic of China |
| The Macaluso Sisters | Emma Dante | Italy |
| Fucking with Nobody | Hannaleena Hauru | Finland |
| Da 5 Bloods | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Hill of Wind | Park Suk-young | South Korea |
| The Best Years of a Life | Claude Lelouch | France |
| 499 | Rodrigo Reyes | Mexico |
| Resistance | Jonathan Jakubowicz | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Daniel | Niels Arden Oplev | Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Radioactive | Marjane Satrapi | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Lucy in the Sky | Noah Hawley | United States |