| The Locusts | John Patrick Kelley | United States |
| The Redemption | Olli Saarela | Finland |
| The Wax Mask | Sergio Stivaletti | France, Italy |
| Welcome to Sarajevo | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom, United States |
| Another Mother | Paula van der Oest | Netherlands |
| Bed of Roses | Michael Goldenberg | United States |
| Box of Moonlight | Tom DiCillo | Japan, United States |
| Celluloide | Carlo Lizzani | Italy |
| Chain Reaction | Andrew Davis | United States |
| Cosmos | André Turpin, Arto Paragamian, Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Denis Villeneuve, Marie-Julie Dallaire | Canada |
| Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä | Ere Kokkonen | Finland |
| Few of Us | Šarūnas Bartas | France, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal |
| Get on the Bus | Spike Lee | United States |
| Gotti | Robert Harmon | Canada, United States |
| Hard Eight | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | Mary Harron | United Kingdom, United States |
| If These Walls Could Talk | Cher | United States |
| Marquis de Sade | Gwyneth Gibby | Russia, United States |
| Matilda | Danny DeVito | United States |
| Mefie-toi de l'eau qui dort | Jacques Deschamps | France |
| Norma Jean & Marilyn | Tim Fywell | United Kingdom, United States |
| Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | United States |
| The Life Story of David Lloyd George | Maurice Elvey | United Kingdom |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman | United States |
| The Secret Agent | Christopher Hampton | United Kingdom |
| Tromeo and Juliet | Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn | United States |
| Vamsanikokkadu | — | India |
| White Squall | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, United States |
| Boys on the Side | Herbert Ross | United States |
| Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina |
| Feast of July | Christopher Menaul | United Kingdom |
| Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home | Dwight H. Little | United States |
| French Kiss | Lawrence Kasdan | United Kingdom, United States |
| Funny Bones | Peter Chelsom | United Kingdom, United States |
| Gisele's Mania | Alexei Uchitel | Russia |
| Good Men, Good Women | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Japan, Taiwan |
| Häm ziyarät, häm ticarät... | Rasim Ojagov | Azerbaijan |
| Illegal in Blue | Stu Segall | United States |
| Kiss of Death | Barbet Schroeder | United States |
| Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Little Sister | Robert Jan Westdijk | Netherlands |
| Madame Butterfly | Frédéric Mitterrand | France, Germany |
| Naseem | Saeed Akhtar Mirza | India |
| Pedarayudu | Ravi Raja Pinisetty | India |
| Tales from the Hood | Rusty Cundieff | United States |
| The Black Veil | Aleksandr Proshkin | Russia |
| The Glass Shield | Charles Burnett | United States |
| The Infiltrator | John Mackenzie | United States |