| Najac Calling Over to You, Earth | Jean-Henri Meunier | France |
| The Aristocrats | Paul Provenza, Penn Jillette | United States |
| Choose Order | Andres Maimik | Estonia |
| Flying over Everest | Fabio Toncelli | Italy |
 I'm Going to Tell You a Secret | Jonas Åkerlund | United States |
| Gauguin: The Full Story | Waldemar Januszczak | United Kingdom |
| The Cabinet of Doctor Ferron | Jean-Daniel Lafond | Canada |
| Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Lee Hirsch | South Africa |
| How to Draw a Bunny | John Walter | United Kingdom |
| Jim Brown: All-American | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Tree That Remembers | — | Canada |
| Villit Pippelit do Finland | — | Finland |
| Aftermath: The Remnants of War | Daniel Sekulich | Canada |
| Casting | Emmanuel Finkiel | France |
| Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance | Jean-Claude Lubtchansky | France |
| The Quest for Captain Kidd | — | — |
 Bruce Lee in G.O.D 死亡的遊戯 | — | British Hong Kong, Japan |
 Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey | Bruce Lee, John Little | United States |
| Champollion: A Scribe for Egypt | Jean-Claude Lubtchansky | France |
| Goulag | Hélène Châtelain, Iosif Pasternak | France, Belgium |
| Pistoletto | — | Italy |
| Portia White: Think on Me | Sylvia Hamilton | Canada |
| The Books and the Night | Tristán Bauer | Spain, Argentina |
| Traitor or Patriot | Jacques Godbout | Canada |
| Almanach 1999-2000 | Denys Desjardins | Canada |
| Bach in Auschwitz | Michel Daeron | France, Belgium, Netherlands |
| Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment | Peter Wintonick | Canada |
| Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation | Catherine Annau | Canada |
| Kanata: legacy of the children of Aataentsic | René Siouï Labelle | Canada |
| La Commission de la vérité | André Van In | France, Belgium |
| On the Road to Timbuktu: Explorers in Africa | Jean-Claude Lubtchansky | France |
| Through a Blue Lens | Veronica Alice Mannix | Canada |
| A Place Called Chiapas | Nettie Wild | Canada |
| A Secret Buried for 50 Years: A Story of Taiwanese Comfort Women | Yang Chia-Yun | Taiwan |
| Confluencias | Pilar García Elegido | Cuba, Spain |
| Eisenstein: The Master’s House | Aleksandr Iskin, Marianna Kireeva | Russia |
| Exile in Sarajevo | Alma Sahbaz, Tahir Cambis | Australia |
| The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time | Alexander Kluge | Germany |
| Batas Militar | — | Philippines |
| Curzio Malaparte | Jean-Paul Fargier | France |
| Level Five | Chris Marker | France |
| We Lived for Estonia | Andres Sööt | Estonia |
| Al Corazón | Mario Sábato | Argentina |
| Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island | Teresa Griffiths | United Kingdom |
| Rats in the Ranks | Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly | Australia |
| Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse | Deborah Dickson, Anne Belle | United States |
| The Cinderella of Tallinn | Marja Pensala, Pirjo Honkasalo | Finland, Sweden |
| Mondo | Tony Gatlif | France |