| Carol | Todd Haynes | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Fencer | Klaus Härö | Germany, Estonia, Finland |
| In the Heart of the Sea | Ron Howard | Spain, United States, Australia |
| Les nenes no haurien de jugar al futbol | Sònia Sánchez | Spain |
| The Diary of a Teenage Girl | Marielle Heller | United States |
| Concussion | Peter Landesman | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Wild Flowers | Park Suk-young | South Korea |
| Aferim! | Radu Jude | France, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria |
| Salvation | Ivan Vyrypaev | Russia |
| Week-ends | Anne Villacèque | France |
| Inside Out | Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen | United States |
| A Childhood | Philippe Claudel | France |
| When a Tree Falls | Asier Altuna | Spain |
| Sicario | Denis Villeneuve | United States |
| Parisienne | Danielle Arbid | France |
| 45 Years | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom |
| The Midwife | Antti Jokinen | Finland, Lithuania |
| The Wave | Roar Uthaug | Norway, Sweden |
| Stonehearst Asylum | Brad Anderson | United States |
| A Decent Man | Emmanuel Finkiel | France |
| Southpaw | Antoine Fuqua | United States |
| Downriver | Grant Scicluna | Australia |
| Srimanthudu | Koratala Siva | India |
| The Prophet | Joann Sfar, Nina Paley, Roger Allers, Bill Plympton | France, Canada, United States |
| To The Fore | Dante Lam | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| I Am Here | Anders Morgenthaler | Germany, Denmark |
| Magic Mike XXL | Gregory Jacobs | United States |
| Self/less | Tarsem Singh | United States |
| Polder – Tokyo Heidi | Samuel Schwarz, Julian M. Grünthal | Germany, Switzerland |
| The Sound of Trees | François Péloquin | Canada |
| The Grave Dust | Ikechukwu Onyeka | Nigeria |
| Standing Tall | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| Nothing in Return | Daniel Guzmán | Spain |
| Child 44 | Daniel Espinosa | United Kingdom, Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, United States |
| PK | Rajkumar Hirani | India |
| Cake | Daniel Barnz | United States |
| Something Must Break | Ester Martin Bergsmark | Sweden |
| Shoot the Sun | — | South Korea |
| Underdog | Ronnie Sandahl | Norway, Sweden |
| Bad Asses on the Bayou | Craig Moss | United States |
| The Handout | Micheline Lanctôt | Canada |
| Men Never Come Back | Othman Naciri | Morocco |
| The Woman in Black: Angel of Death | Tom Harper | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Magical Girl | Carlos Vermut | France, Spain |
| Fifty Shades of Grey | Sam Taylor-Johnson | United States |
| Unbeatable | Dante Lam | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| The Gambler | Rupert Wyatt | United States |
| What's Between Us | Claudia Lorenz | Switzerland |