| The Whore and the Whale | Luis Puenzo | Spain, Argentina |
| Raising Helen | Garry Marshall | United States |
| Maria Full of Grace | Joshua Marston | United States, Ecuador, Colombia |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Peter Webber | United Kingdom, Luxembourg |
| Taking Lives | D.J. Caruso | Canada, United States, Australia |
| Secret Window | David Koepp | United States |
| Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | Guy Ferland | United States |
| Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Sara Sugarman | United States |
| Triple Agent | Éric Rohmer | France, Spain, Italy, Greece |
| Wild Side | Sébastien Lifshitz | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| Stratosphere Girl | Matthias X. Oberg | France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands |
| Taegukgi | Kang Je-gyu | South Korea |
| The Dreamers | Bernardo Bertolucci | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Time of the Wolf | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Austria |
| Misa mi | Linus Torell | Sweden |
| Mona Lisa Smile | Mike Newell | United States |
| The Human Stain | Robert Benton | France, Germany, United States |
| Saraband | Ingmar Bergman | Germany, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Austria |
| His Brother | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| Jet Lag | Danièle Thompson | France |
| Destination Moscow | Runar Hodne, Jo Strømgren | Norway |
| Secondhand Lions | Tim McCanlies | United States |
| Zatōichi | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Seawards Journey | Guillermo Casanova | Uruguay |
| The Way in the Woods | Tonino De Bernardi | Italy |
| The Flower of Evil | Claude Chabrol | France |
| Pokémon: Jirachi, Wish Maker | Kunihiko Yuyama | Japan |
| Roads to Koktebel | Alexei Popogrebski, Boris Khlebnikov | Russia |
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Swept Away | Guy Ritchie | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Bruce Almighty | Tom Shadyac | United States |
| Niki and Flo | Lucian Pintilie | France, Romania |
| Struggle | Ruth Mader | Austria |
| A Letter from Mars | Kim Jung-kwon | South Korea |
| Life or Something Like It | Stephen Herek | United States |
| I, Cesar | Richard Berry | France |
| Novemberlicht | Eric Oosthoek | Netherlands |
| Daredevil | Mark Steven Johnson | United States |
| Tears of the Sun | Antoine Fuqua | United States |
| Wolf Summer | Peder Norlund | Norway |
| About Schmidt | Alexander Payne | United States |
| Adaptation | Spike Jonze | United States |
| Bookies | Mark Illsley | Germany, United States |
| Bad Boys | Aleksi Mäkelä | Finland |
| The Dancer Upstairs | John Malkovich | Spain, United States |
| Portrait of a Married Couple | Isabelle Stever | Germany |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| Son of the Bride | Juan J. Campanella | Spain, Argentina |