| The Kitchen | Andrea Berloff | United States |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | United Kingdom, United States |
| Baghdad in my Shadow | Samir | United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Iraq |
| Adoration | Fabrice Du Welz | Belgium |
| The Bravest | Tony Chan | People's Republic of China |
| Let There Be Light | Marko Škop | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Monsoon | Hong Khaou | United Kingdom, Vietnam |
| Koki-koki Cilik 2 | Viva Westi | Indonesia |
| Long Live the King | Kang Yun-seong | South Korea |
 Tolkien | Dome Karukoski | United States |
| I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians | Radu Jude | France, Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria |
| Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| La filla d'algú | Alejandro Marín, Júlia de Paz Solvas, Valentin Moulias, Sara Fantova, Celia Giraldo, Marcel Alcántara, Enric Vilageliu, Pol Vidal, Guillem Gallego, Carlos Villafaina, Gerard Vidal Cortés | Catalonia |
| The Sun Is Also a Star | Ry Russo-Young | United States |
| The Halt | Lav Diaz | Philippines |
| The Tomorrow Man | Noble Jones | United States |
| Aniara | Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja | Sweden |
| Beanpole | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
| The Professor and the Madman | Farhad Safinia | Ireland, United States |
| Vox Lux | Brady Corbet | United States |
| The Collini Case | Marco Kreuzpaintner | Germany |
| High Life | Claire Denis | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland |
| I Want to Eat Your Pancreas | Shinichiro Ushijima | Japan |
| Papa hat keinen Plan | Matthias Steurer | Germany |
| Sergio and Sergei | Ernesto Daranas | Cuba, Spain, United States |
 Five Feet Apart | Justin Baldoni | United States |
| 4 latas | Gerardo Olivares | Spain |
| The Wolf's Call | Antonin Baudry | France |
 Fighting with My Family | Stephen Merchant | United Kingdom, United States |
| Innocent Witness | Lee Han | South Korea |
| Piranhas | Claudio Giovannesi | France, Italy |
| Boy Erased | Joel Edgerton | United States, Australia |
| Brugklas: De tijd van m'n leven | Goof de Koning, Raymond Grimbergen | Netherlands |
| Mia and the White Lion | Gilles de Maistre | France, Germany, South Africa |
| Aurora | Miia Tervo | Finland |
| A Dog's Way Home | Charles Martin Smith | United States |
| Kursk | Thomas Vinterberg | France, Belgium |
| Aren't You Happy? | Susanne Heinrich | Germany |
| Reign of the Supermen | Sam Liu | United States |
| Kill Mobile | Miao Yu | People's Republic of China |
| Black Mirror: Bandersnatch | David Slade | United Kingdom |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | United States |
| Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman | United States |
| Milly & Mamet | Ernest Prakasa | Indonesia |
| Bhajjo Veero Ve | Amberdeep Singh | India |
| Dahan | Raihan Rafi | Bangladesh |
| Keira | — | Indonesia |
| A Cool Fish | Rao Xiaozhi | People's Republic of China |