| Animals in Love | Laurent Charbonnier | France |
| Close-Up – Kurdistan | Yüksel Yavuz | Germany |
| Dust | Hartmut Bitomsky | Germany, Switzerland |
| Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio | Everardo González | Mexico |
| The Road to Guantanamo | Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Jesus Camp | Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | United States |
| Deliver Us from Evil | Amy J. Berg | United States |
| Roving Mars | George Butler | United States |
 Who Killed the Electric Car? | Chris Paine | United States |
| My Name Is Albert Ayler | Kasper Collin | Sweden |
| America's Heart and Soul | Louis Schwartzberg | United States |
| Ghosts of the Abyss | James Cameron | United States |
| Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Black Indians: An American Story | Chip Richie | United States |
| Bashkim | Vadim Jendreyko | Germany, Switzerland |
| The Gleaners and I | Agnès Varda | France |
| Back home to the Reich, with Bubi | Stanislaw Mucha | Germany |
| Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle | Jon H. Else | United States |
| Living Amongst Lions | Sigve Endresen | Norway |
| Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye | Christel Buschmann | Germany |
| Magic Matterhorn | Anka Schmid | Switzerland |
| Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives | Lynne Fernie | Canada |
| Delicate Sound of Thunder | Wayne Isham | United Kingdom |
| For harde livet | Sigve Endresen | Norway |
| Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophuls | France, Germany, United States |
| Vietnam Requiem | Bill Couturié, Jonas McCord | United States |
| Standing Alone | Colin Low | Canada |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| Chōkō | Masashi Sada | People's Republic of China, Japan |
| America at the Movies | George Stevens, Jr. | United States |
| Same Ællin | Titus Vibe-Müller | Norway |
| 4 Clowns | Robert Youngson | United States |
| Ama Lur | Fernando Larruquert, Nestor Basterretxea | Spain |
| Always on Sunday | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |
| Lykke og krone | Colbjørn Helander | Norway |
| Havråtunet | Sigurd Agnell | Norway |
| Roald Amundsen | Reidar Lunde | Norway |
 Great Mourning | Sergei Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova, Irina Setkina-Nesterova, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikheil Chiaureli | Soviet Union |
| Jungle Beyond | Per Høst | Norway |
| The Dreamed Valley | Arne Sucksdorff | Sweden |
| Soviet Ukraine | Mikhail Slutsky, Georgi Tasin | Soviet Union |
 Liberation of Soviet Belarus | Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, Mikola Sadkovich | Soviet Union |
| En sommarsaga | Arne Sucksdorff | Sweden |
| The Land | Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty | United States |
 Boyevoy kinosbornik 5 | Mikhail Slutsky | Soviet Union |
| What Will I Become? | Lexie Bean, Logan Rozos | United States |
| Kindergarten | Jean-François Caissy | Canada |
| Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardians of the Rainforest | Santiago Bertolino | Canada |