| Buddies | Jan Halldoff | Sweden |
| Chanson pour Julie | Jacques Vallée | Canada |
| Honeymoon | Fereydun Gole | Iran |
| İki Kızgın Adam | Ertem Göreç | Turkey, Iran |
| Jaahel and the Dancer | Reza Safaei | Iran |
| Madar Joonam Aashegh Shode | Akbar Sadeghi | Iran |
| Mann Gegen Mann | Kurt Maetzig | East Germany |
| My Business (film) | Leonid Maryagin | Soviet Union |
| Network | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| Patsura | — | Georgian SSR |
| Red and Black (1976 film) | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| Smrt mouchy | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic |
| Story of an Unknown Actor | Aleksandr Zarkhi | Soviet Union |
| Summer | Arvo Kruusement | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| The Inugamis | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| The Port | — | Soviet Union |
| The Story of David | Alex Segal, David Lowell Rich | United States |
| The Wishing Tree | Tengiz Abuladze | Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Avalanche | — | Soviet Union |
| Ghasam | Amir Shervan | Iran |
| Kader Yolcuları | Orhan Elmas | Turkey, Iran |
| Khodahafez koochooloo | Reza Aghili | Iran |
| Lies My Father Told Me | Ján Kadár | Canada |
| Meshki | Nasser Mohammadi | Iran |
| My Michael | Dan Wolman | Israel |
| No End of Surprises | Chu Mu | Hong Kong |
| Shahrag | Alireza Davood Nejad | Iran |
| Solamente ella | Lucas Demare | Argentina |
| The Empress Dowager | Li Han-hsiang | Hong Kong |
| The Garage | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
| The Great Waldo Pepper | George Roy Hill | United States |
| The Hindenburg | Robert Wise | United States |
| Variant 'Omega' | Antonis Vogiazos | Soviet Union |
| Zabih | Mohammad Motevaselani | Iran |
| Abarmard | Davoud Esmaeili | Iran |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Child Under a Leaf | George Bloomfield | Canada |
| De Cierta Manera | Sara Gómez, Julio García Espinosa, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| Dead Cert | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom |
| Der nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| Khoshgela Avazi Gereftin | Khosrow Parvizi | Iran |
| Les Ordres | Michel Brault | Canada |
| Long-Haired Wonder | Viktor Titov | Soviet Union |
| Nemuritorii | Sergiu Nicolaescu | East Germany, Romania |
| Rainha Diaba | Antonio Carlos da Fontoura | Brazil |
| Red Hair | Abdollah Ghiabi | Iran |
| Ryoma Ansatsu | Kazuo Kuroki | Japan |
| Salam bar Eshgh | Azizaleh Bahadori | Iran |