| Pulse | David Mallet | United Kingdom |
| The Shadow of Hate | Charles Guggenheim | United States |
| Conversations with Vincent | Tim Burton | United States |
| Place Clichy sans complexe | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |
| That's Entertainment! III | Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan | United States |
| In Calabria | Tommaso Cotronei, Vittorio De Seta | Italy |
| Speak of the Devil | Nick Bougas | United States |
| BBC: Realms of the Russian Bear | — | United Kingdom |
| Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Ken Burns | United States |
| Le Mouton noir | Jacques Godbout | Canada |
| Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Bill Miles | United States |
| Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter | Sandy Weinberg, Nick Bougas | United States |
| Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Assassination! | Sandy Weinberg, Nick Bougas | United States |
| Crimes and Passions - The Scar | Mireille Dumas | France |
| Dostoevsky's Travels | Paweł Pawlikowski | United Kingdom |
| The Heart of Hatred | Catherine Tatge, Dominique Lasseur | United States |
| Dr. No? | Jacob Young | United States |
| The Wall | Jürgen Böttcher | Germany |
| When the Applause Died | Nick Bougas | United States |
| The Flying Scotsman Down Under | — | Australia |
| The Monkey Folk | Gérard Vienne | France |
| Solovky Power | Marina Goldovskaya | Soviet Union |
| Alfred Laliberté, Sculpteur | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Canada |
| Həyat mübarizədir | Cahangir Zeynallı | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Kostka cukru | Jacek Bławut | Poland |
| The Last Judgement | Herz Frank | Soviet Union |
| The Story of Yanagawa's Canals | Isao Takahata | Japan |
| Əbədiyyət yolu | Cahangir Zeynallı | Soviet Union |
| Creole Connections | — | Canada |
| Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima | Michael Camerini | United States |
| Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer | Amram Eli Nowak | United States |
| Secrets of the Titanic | Robert Ballard | United States |
 Zaunkämpfe | — | Germany |
| O Picasso | Camille Coudari, Gilles Carle | Canada |
| That's Dancing! | Jack Haley Jr. | United States |
| Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Carlo Di Palma, Francesco Laudadio, Franco Giraldi, Gianni Amico, Gianni Toti, Giorgio Ferrara, Alfredo Angeli, Luigi Monardo Faccini, Libero Bizzarri, Nicolò Ferrari, Piero Vivarelli, Roberto Benigni +18 | Italy |
| High Schools | Charles Guggenheim | United States |
 News Items | Raymond Depardon | France |
| The Profession of Arms | Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen | Canada |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | United States, Guatemala |
| Coming Soon | John Landis | United States |
| La bête lumineuse | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography | Bonnie Sherr Klein | Canada |
| Unknown Chaplin | Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | United Kingdom |
| E una domenica sera di novembre | Lina Wertmüller | Italy |
| The Saimaa Gesture | Aki Kaurismäki, Mika Kaurismäki | Finland |
| Challenger: An Industrial Romance | Michael Rubbo | Canada |
| El Salvador: El pueblo vencerà | Diego de la Texera | El Salvador |