| Hitchcock | Sacha Gervasi | United States |
| La revolución es un sueño eterno | Nemesio Juárez | Argentina |
| Journey to Portugal | Sérgio Tréfaut | Brazil, Portugal |
| The Intouchables | Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache | France |
| Dersimiz: Atatürk | Hamdi Alkan | Turkey |
| Miral | Julian Schnabel | France, Palestine, United States, Italy, India, Israel |
| You Don't Know Jack | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Amelia | Mira Nair | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Bathory | Juraj Jakubisko | United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary |
| Khí phách anh hùng | Hồ Ngọc Xum | Vietnam |
| Metropolitan Andrey | Oles Yanchuk | Ukraine |
| Skin | Anthony Fabian | United Kingdom |
| The Express | Gary Fleder | United States |
| W. | Oliver Stone | United States |
| Georg | Peeter Simm | Estonia |
| Hwang Jin Yi | Chang Yoon-hyun | South Korea |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | France |
| Libertas | Veljko Bulajić | Croatia, Italy |
| The Notorious Bettie Page | Mary Harron | United States |
| The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Jane Anderson | United States |
| Hawking | Philip Martin | United Kingdom |
| Hotel Rwanda | Terry George | United Kingdom, South Africa, United States, Italy |
| She Hate Me | Spike Lee | United States |
| Pretty Girl | David Stanley | United States |
| Druids | Jacques Dorfmann | France, Canada, Belgium |
| The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey | United States |
| To Be with You Forever | Ding Yinnan | People's Republic of China |
| Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | United States |
| Rembrandt | Charles Matton | France, Germany, Netherlands |
| The Insider | — | United States |
| Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur | United Kingdom |
| Without Limits | Robert Towne | United States |
| Annamayya | K. Raghavendra Rao | India |
| Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | United States |
| Once Upon a Time in China and America | Sammo Hung | Hong Kong |
| Private Parts | Betty Thomas | United States |
| Selena | Gregory Nava | United States |
| Beaumarchais | Édouard Molinaro | France |
| Birds Without Nests | Vitali Dudin | Belarus |
| Gotti | Robert Harmon | Canada, United States |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | Mary Harron | United Kingdom, United States |
| Nasser 56 | Mohammed Fadel | Egypt |
| Norma Jean & Marilyn | Tim Fywell | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Life Story of David Lloyd George | Maurice Elvey | United Kingdom |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman | United States |
| Countess Dora | Zvonimir Berković | Croatia |
| Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | Rob Cohen | United States |
| Once Upon a Time in China IV | Yuen Bun | Hong Kong |