| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Austria |
| Trouble Every Day | Claire Denis | France, Japan, Germany |
| Sisters | Sergey Bodrov, Jr. | Russia |
| Indian Summer | Noh Hyo-jeong | South Korea |
| Ba người đàn ông | — | Vietnam |
| Blow | Ted Demme | United States |
| The Admirer | Nikolai Lebedev | Russia |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, United States |
| Save the Last Dance | Thomas Carter | United States |
| Broken Hearts | Rafael Montero | Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico |
| Quills | Philip Kaufman | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| The Party | Saman Moghadam | Iran |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | People's Republic of China, United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Code Unknown | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Romania |
| The Legend of Bagger Vance | Robert Redford | United States |
| 3 A.M. | Lee Davis | United States |
| Lost and Delirious | Léa Pool | Canada |
| Antitrust | Peter Howitt | United States |
| Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | Germany, United States, Mexico |
| Merci pour le chocolat | Claude Chabrol | France, Switzerland |
| My Dog Skip | Jay Russell | United States |
| Reindeer Games | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| Vertical Limit | Martin Campbell | United States |
| The South | Aleksi Mäkelä | Finland |
| Eye of the Beholder | Stephan Elliott | United Kingdom, Canada, Australia |
| Where the Heart Is | Matt Williams | United States |
| Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| Anna Wunder | Ulla Wagner | Germany, Switzerland |
| In the Days of Whore | Thomas Zupko | United States |
| Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen | Ella Lemhagen | Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Disney's The Kid | Jon Turteltaub | United States |
| What Lies Beneath | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| Get Carter | Stephen Kay | United States |
| Such Is Life | Arturo Ripstein | France, Mexico |
| Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca | Teresa Kotlarczyk | Poland |
| The Way of the Gun | Christopher McQuarrie | United States |
| Leo | José Luis Borau | Spain |
| Autumn in New York | Joan Chen | United States |
| I Dreamed of Africa | Hugh Hudson | United States |
| August 32nd on Earth | Denis Villeneuve | Canada |
| Playing by Heart | Willard Carroll | United States |
| Girl, Interrupted | James Mangold | United States |
| Crazy | Hans-Christian Schmid | Germany |
| Boiler Room | Ben Younger | United States |
| Anarchists | Yoo Young-sik | South Korea |
| The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | United States |
| Moloch | Alexander Sokurov | Russia, Germany |