| Year as Long as Life | Grigori Roshal, Äzirbayzhan Mämbetov | Soviet Union |
| The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | United States |
| Isidro el Labrador | Rafael J. Salvia | Spain |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| Sweetheart of the Gods | Gottfried Reinhardt | Germany |
| Too Much, Too Soon | Art Napoleon | United States |
| Nine Lives | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Fear Strikes Out | Robert Mulligan | United States |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | Italy |
| The Iron Major | Ray Enright | United States |
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | Germany |
| My universities | Mark Donskoy | Soviet Union |
| Gjest Baardsen | Tancred Ibsen | Norway |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | United States |
| Our Erika | German Golub | Estonia |
| São Gabriel da Virgem Dolorosa | — | Brazil |
| Marco, the Invented Truth | Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi | Spain |
| Amb tots vostès, Joan Pera | Xavier Sanjuan | Spain |
| Bank of Dave | Chris Foggin | United Kingdom |
| Charlotte Salomon, la jeune fille et la vie | Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin | France |
| Girl You Know It's True | Simon Verhoeven | France, Germany, South Africa, United States |
| Jope ite | Marko Talli | Finland |
| Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush | Andreas Dresen | France, Germany |
| American Underdog | Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin | United States |
| Kaagaz | Satish Kaushik | India |
| Petra de San José | Pablo Moreno | Spain |
| Shakuntala Devi | Anu Menon | India |
| Tsoi | Alexei Uchitel | Russia, Latvia |
| Piłsudski | Michał Rosa | Poland |
| Bold Pilot | Ahmet Katıksız | Turkey |
| Erik & Erika | Reinhold Bilgeri | Germany, Austria |
| Hotel Mumbai | Anthony Maras | United States, Australia, India |
| La Bolduc | François Bouvier | Canada |
| The White Crow | Ralph Fiennes | France, United Kingdom, Serbia |
| Borg McEnroe | Janus Metz Pedersen | Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Denmark |
| Shock and Awe | Rob Reiner | United States |
| The Disaster Artist | James Franco | United States |
| King Cobra | Justin Kelly | United States |
| Poveda | Pablo Moreno | Spain |
| The Champions: Faster. Higher. Stronger | Artyom Aksenenko | Russia |
| War Dogs | Todd Phillips | United States |
| Aligarh | Hansal Mehta | India |
| Ang Sugo: The Last Messenger | Joel Lamangan | Philippines |
| Heneral Luna | Jerrold Tarog | Philippines |
| Macbeth | Justin Kurzel | France, United Kingdom |
| Pasolini | Abel Ferrara | France, Belgium, Italy |
| The Champions | Dmitri Dyuzhev, Artyom Aksenenko | Russia |
| Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America | Rodrigo H. Vila | Argentina |