| Praise of the Distance | — | Spain |
| Morning Light | Mark Monroe | United States |
| Tabarly | Pierre Marcel | France |
| Old Man Bebo | Carlos Carcas | Spain |
| Fitna | Geert Wilders, Scarlet Pimpernel | Netherlands |
| Harvesting the Wasteland | — | Norway |
| Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies | Yulene Olaizola | Mexico |
| Loos Ornamental | Heinz Emigholz | Germany, Austria |
| Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | Bruce Hendricks | United States |
| Close-Up – Kurdistan | Yüksel Yavuz | Germany |
| The 11th Hour | Leila Conners, Nadia Conners | United States |
| Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe | Julian Benedikt | Germany |
| Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | United States |
| An Inconvenient Truth | Davis Guggenheim | United States |
| Who Killed the Electric Car? | Chris Paine | United States |
| Darwin's Nightmare | Hubert Sauper | France, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Austria |
| Salvador Allende | Patricio Guzmán | France, Chile, Argentina |
| Gunnar Goes Comfortable | Gunnar Hall Jensen | Norway |
| Et steinkast unna | Line Halvorsen | Norway |
| Ghosts of the Abyss | James Cameron | United States |
| Bunker | Gavin Hodge, Martina Reuter | Germany, Switzerland |
| A World Apart | Ināra Kolmane | Latvia |
| Asesinato en febrero | Eterio Ortega Santillana | Spain |
| Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye | Christel Buschmann | Germany |
| Bak din rygg | Aslaug Holm | Norway |
| Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives | Lynne Fernie | Canada |
| A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom |
| Big Boys Don't Cry | Sigve Endresen | Norway |
| Playtime | Claire Simon | France |
| Delicate Sound of Thunder | Wayne Isham | United Kingdom |
| For harde livet | Sigve Endresen | Norway |
| Amors Bilar | Ylva Floreman | Sweden |
| America and Lewis Hine | Nina Rosenblum | United States |
| Zydeco | — | — |
| The World of ‘The Dark Crystal’ | Jim Henson | United States |
| Chōkō | Masashi Sada | People's Republic of China, Japan |
| Model | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
| Akik kimaradtak a szereposztásból | Gyula Radó | Hungary |
| Dieppe 1942 | Terence Macartney-Filgate | Canada |
| Film Novel: Three Sisters | István Dárday | Hungary |
| Same Ællin | Titus Vibe-Müller | Norway |
| Jungle Cat | James Algar | United States |
| White Wilderness | James Algar | United States |
| Secrets of Life | James Algar | United States |
| Great Mourning | Sergei Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova, Irina Setkina-Nesterova, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikheil Chiaureli | Soviet Union |
| Kon-Tiki | Thor Heyerdahl, Olle Nordemar | Norway, Sweden |
| Searchlight on Japan | Ken G. Hall | Australia |
| Liberation of Soviet Belarus | Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, Mikola Sadkovich | Soviet Union |