| Stowaway | Joe Penna | drama film, thriller film, science fiction film |
| Die Vergesslichkeit der Eichhörnchen | Marc Dietschreit, Nadine Heinze | drama film, comedy film |
| And Tomorrow the Entire World | Julia von Heinz | drama film, political film |
| Unreal Boys | Karl Andersson | documentary film |
| Faking Bullshit | Alexander Schubert | comedy film |
| The Homecoming | Tim Oliver Boehme | documentary film |
| Resistance | Jonathan Jakubowicz | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film, comedy drama |
| Guns Akimbo | Jason Lei Howden | comedy film, action film, action comedy film |
| Paris Calligrammes | Ulrike Ottinger | film portrait, documentary film |
| Never Look Away | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | drama film |
| High Life | Claire Denis | arthouse science fiction film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film |
| Polar | Jonas Åkerlund | drama film, action film, neo-noir, thriller film, adventure film, crime film |
| Another Day of Life | Damian Nenow, Raúl de la Fuente | drama film, animated film, documentary film |
| My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot | Philip Gröning | drama film |
| Happiness Sucks | Anca Miruna Lăzărescu | drama film, comedy film |
| Little Witch on a Broomstick | Václav Vorlíček | family film, comedy film, cinematic fairy tale, trick film |
| Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House | Ali Samadi Ahadi | children's film, live-action/animated film |
| Lilly the Witch: The Journey to Mandolan | Harald Sicheritz | comedy film |
| Safari – Match me if you can | Rudi Gaul | comedy film |
| What Will People Say | Iram Haq | drama film |
| How to Be Really Bad | Marco Petry | comedy film |
| Vacuum | Christine Repond | drama film |
| After the Future | André Krummel | documentary film |
| The Square | Ruben Östlund | satirical film, comedy drama |
| Tom of Finland | Dome Karukoski | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film |
| Unter deutschen Betten | Jan Fehse | comedy film |
| My Giraffe | Barbara Bredero | family film, comedy film |
| Manifesto | Julian Rosefeldt | drama film, anthology film |
| Grießnockerlaffäre | Ed Herzog | crime comedy film |
| Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Luc Besson | action film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| The Cakemaker | Ofir Raul Graizer | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Sommerfest | Sönke Wortmann | comedy drama |
| They called him Bulldozer | Karl-Martin Pold | documentary film |
| Salt and Fire | Werner Herzog | thriller film |
| Alone in Berlin | Vincent Perez | drama film, war film, biographical film |
| Time Heroes | Christian Theede | — |
| Comrade, Where Are You Today? | Kirsi Marie Liimatainen | documentary film |
| Lou Andreas-Salomé | Cordula Kablitz-Post | drama film, biographical film |
| Eddie the Eagle | Dexter Fletcher | biographical sports film, drama film, comedy drama |
| LenaLove | Florian Gaag | drama film, thriller film |
| Greetings from Fukushima | Doris Dörrie | drama film |
| The Fencer | Klaus Härö | drama film, sport film |
| Heidi | Alain Gsponer | — |
| Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | historical film, trial film, war film, biographical film |
| Ukrainian Sheriffs | Roman Bondarchuk | documentary film |
| Magie der Moore | Jan Haft | documentary film |
| I Am Here | Anders Morgenthaler | drama film |
| Polder – Tokyo Heidi | Samuel Schwarz, Julian M. Grünthal | drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film |