| Bright Star | Jane Campion | France, United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| The Yellow Handkerchief | Udayan Prasad | United States |
| Paradise | Lee Jang-soo | South Korea |
| The Admiral | Andrei Kravchuk | France, People's Republic of China, Russia |
| Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | France, Canada, Germany, Belgium |
| Coco Before Chanel | Anne Fontaine | France, Belgium |
| Last Chance Harvey | Joel Hopkins | United States |
| Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | United Kingdom |
| The Reader | Stephen Daldry | Germany, United States |
| Stilyagi | Valery Todorovsky | Russia |
| Lost and Found | Jung-hwa Chung | South Korea |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | United States |
| Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom | Iginio Straffi | Italy |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Justin Chadwick | United Kingdom, United States |
| Koizora | Natsuki Imai | Japan |
| Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox | Lee Sung-gang | South Korea |
| Feast of Love | Robert Benton | United States |
| Little Children | Todd Field | United States |
| The Nanny Diaries | Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | United States |
| Stomp the Yard | Sylvain White | United States |
| All About Anna | Nicolas Barbano, Jessica Nilsson | Denmark |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| Jump In! | Paul Hoen | United States |
| I Served the King of England | Jiří Menzel | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Hayatimin Kadinisin | Uğur Yücel | Turkey |
| Nada Sōsō | Nobuhiro Doi | Japan |
| Stranger than Fiction | Marc Forster | United States |
| Avenue Montaigne | Danièle Thompson | France |
| Valley of Flowers | Pan Nalin | France, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, India |
| Piter FM | Oksana Bychkova | Russia |
| Ask the Dust | Robert Towne | United States |
| Fluff and Fold | Brad Armstrong | United States |
| King Kong | Peter Jackson | United States, New Zealand |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Rob Marshall | United States |
| Love Talk | Lee Yun-ki | South Korea |
| Allegro | Christoffer Boe | Denmark |
| Eat Hot Tofu Slowly | Feng Gong | People's Republic of China |
| Hostage | Florent-Emilio Siri | Germany, United States |
| Angels in Fast Motion | Ole Christian Madsen | Denmark |
| Code 46 | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Closer | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Anand | Sekhar Kammula | India |
| The Color of Milk | Torun Lian | Norway |
| The Hypnotized | Kim In-shik | South Korea |
| Before Sunset | Richard Linklater | United States |
| The Consequences of Love | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| Varsham | Sobhan | India |
| Chameli | Anant Balani, Sudhir Mishra | India |