| About Cherry | Stephen Elliott | United States |
| Voice of My Father | Zeynel Doğan, Orhan Eskiköy | France, Germany, Turkey |
| ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards | Stefano Sollima | France, Italy |
| My Worst Nightmare | Anne Fontaine | France, Belgium |
| Soul Surfer | Sean McNamara | United States |
| Raspoutine (2011 film) | Irakli Kvirikadze, Josée Dayan | France, Russia |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | United States, Sweden |
| Perfect Sense | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark |
| Submarine | Richard Ayoade | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Gang Story | Olivier Marchal | France, Belgium |
| J. Edgar | Clint Eastwood | United Kingdom, United States |
| Mr. Idol | Hee-chan Ra | South Korea |
| A Reason to Live | Lee Jeong-hyang | South Korea |
| Contagion | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| Colombiana | Olivier Megaton | France |
| Moneyball | Bennett Miller | United States |
| A Dangerous Method | David Cronenberg | United Kingdom, Canada, Germany |
| 10 Years | Jamie Linden | United States |
| Hindsight | Lee Hyeon-seung | South Korea |
| Rock: Wanko no Shima | Isamu Nakae | Japan |
| The Company Men | John Wells | United States |
| Paradise Kiss | Takehiko Shinjō | Japan |
| Elena | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| Puttakkana Highway | B. Suresha | India |
| Melancholia | Lars von Trier | France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Italy |
| Mother and Child | Rodrigo García Márquez | United States |
| Gantz: Perfect Answer | Shinsuke Sato | Japan |
| The Last Blossom | Min Kyu-dong | South Korea |
| Alle Tijd | Job Gosschalk | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Insidious | James Wan | Canada, United States |
| Three minutes. 21:37 | Maciej Ślesicki | Poland |
| The Five Seasons | Sana Akroud | Morocco |
| Romantic Heaven | Jang Jin | South Korea |
| Late Autumn | Kim Tae-yong | South Korea |
| The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | United Kingdom |
| A Walk in the Fog | Bahram Tavakoli | Iran |
| The Roommate | Christian E. Christiansen | United States |
| Hella W | Juha Wuolijoki | Finland |
| Another Year | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Election | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| The Mountain | Ole Giæver | Norway |
| Glove | Kang Woo-suk | South Korea |
| Sacrifice | Chen Kaige | People's Republic of China |
| Middle Men | George Gallo | United States |
| Cornelis | Amir Chamdin | Norway, Sweden |
| Aftershock | Feng Xiaogang | People's Republic of China |
| Takers | John Luessenhop | United States |
| Heartbeats | Xavier Dolan | Canada |