| Radio West | Alessandro Valori | Italy |
| Secret File | Paolo Benvenuti | Italy |
| Silmido | Kang Woo-suk | South Korea |
| Snowboarder | Olias Barco | France, Switzerland |
| The Foreigner | Michael Oblowitz | United States |
| The Man on the Train | Patrice Leconte | France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany |
| The Mother | Roger Michell | United Kingdom |
| The Principles of Lust | Penny Woolcock | United Kingdom |
| Witnesses | Vinko Brešan | Croatia |
| Bubba Ho-tep | Don Coscarelli | United States |
| Burning in the Wind | Silvio Soldini | Italy, Switzerland |
| Bus Stop | Mi-yeon Lee | South Korea |
| Day of the Wacko | Marek Koterski | Poland |
| El Alamein - The Line of Fire | Enzo Monteleone | Italy |
| Hard Cash | Predrag Antonijević | United States |
| Killed by Lightning | Yevgeny Yufit | Russia |
| Kontrabas | Anna Melikian | Russia |
| L'Auberge espagnole | Cédric Klapisch | France, Spain |
| Le stade de Wimbledon | Mathieu Amalric | France |
| Max | Menno Meyjes | United Kingdom, Canada, Hungary |
| People I Know | Daniel Algrant | Germany, United States |
| Queen of the Damned | Michael Rymer | United States, Australia |
| Red Dragon | Brett Ratner | United States |
| Spider | David Cronenberg | France, United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Bridgeman | Géza Bereményi | Hungary |
| The Heart of Me | Thaddeus O'Sullivan | United Kingdom |
| The Last Letter | Frederick Wiseman | France |
| The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan | France, United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Waking Up in Reno | Jordan Brady | United States |
| YMCA Baseball Team | Kim Hyun-seok | South Korea |
| A Day | Han Ji-seung | South Korea |
| Air Panic | Bob Misiorowski | United States |
| Autumn Spring | Vladimír Michálek | Czech Republic |
| Behind Enemy Lines | John Moore | United States |
| Chasing Destiny | Tim Boxell | United States |
| Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | United States |
| Druids | Jacques Dorfmann | France, Canada, Belgium |
| Dust | Milcho Manchevski | United Kingdom, Germany, North Macedonia, Italy |
| Gunblast Vodka | Jean-Louis Daniel | France |
| I'm Going Home | Manoel de Oliveira | France, Portugal |
| Impostor | Gary Fleder | United States |
| Inugami | Masato Harada | Japan |
| Lagaan | Ashutosh Gowariker | India |
| Life Is Full of Fun | Pyotr Todorovsky | Russia |
| Loin | André Téchiné | France |
| Martha... Martha | Sandrine Veysset | France |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | United States |
| Poovellam Un Vasam | Ezhil | India |