| A War | Tobias Lindholm | Denmark |
| Italian Race | Matteo Rovere | Italia |
| Beauty and the Best | — | Indonesia |
| Wa'alaikumsalam Paris | Benni Setiawan | Indonesia |
| Only Yesterday | Isao Takahata | Jepang |
| The Righteous | Michał Szczerbic | Polandia |
| Shelley | Ali Abbasi | Swedia, Denmark |
| Agnus Dei | Anne Fontaine | Prancis, Belgia, Polandia |
| London Love Story | Asep Kusdinar | Indonesia |
| Beyond Sleep | Boudewijn Koole | Belanda |
| Suite française | Saul Dibb | Prancis, Britania Raya, Belgia |
| Between Us | Rafael Palacio Illingworth | Amerika Serikat |
| Our Little Sister | Hirokazu Koreeda | Jepang |
| The Fencer | Klaus Härö | Jerman, Estonia, Finlandia |
| Orange | Kōjirō Hashimoto | Jepang |
| Chiamatemi Francesco | Daniele Luchetti | Italia |
| Youth | Paolo Sorrentino | Prancis, Britania Raya, Italia, Swiss |
| The Sound of a Flower | Lee Jong-pil | Korea Selatan |
| The Diary of a Teenage Girl | Marielle Heller | Amerika Serikat |
| Concussion | Peter Landesman | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat, Australia |
| Aferim! | Radu Jude | Prancis, Ceko, Rumania, Bulgaria |
| Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Inside Out | Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen | Amerika Serikat |
| Warrior | Aleksey Andrianov | Rusia |
| Love | Gaspar Noé | Prancis, Belgia |
| Everest | Baltasar Kormákur | Britania Raya, Islandia, Amerika Serikat |
| The Visit (film 2015) | M. Night Shyamalan | Amerika Serikat |
| Ricki and the Flash | Jonathan Demme | Amerika Serikat |
| Spotlight | Thomas McCarthy | Amerika Serikat |
| Those Happy Years | Daniele Luchetti | Prancis, Italia |
| We Are Your Friends | Max Joseph | Prancis, Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Downriver | Grant Scicluna | Australia |
| To the Fore | Dante Lam | Tiongkok, Hong Kong |
| While We're Young (film) | Noah Baumbach | Amerika Serikat |
| Bajrangi Bhaijaan | Kabir Khan (sutradara) | India |
| Trash (film 2014) | Stephen Daldry | Britania Raya |
| A Midsummer's Fantasia | Jang Kun-jae | Korea Selatan |
| Standing Tall | Emmanuelle Bercot | Prancis |
| Under Heaven | Dalmira Tilepbergen | Kirgizstan |
| Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis | Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat, Austria |
| The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | John Madden | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Lost and Love | Peng Sanyuan | Tiongkok, Hong Kong |
| Messalina | Carmine Gallone | Prancis, Spanyol, Italia |
| Gemma Bovery | Anne Fontaine | Prancis, Britania Raya |
| The Sea Is Behind | Hicham Lasri | Maroko, Prancis |
| Against the Sun | Brian Peter Falk | Amerika Serikat |
| The Gambler (film 2014) | Rupert Wyatt | Amerika Serikat |
| What's Between Us | Claudia Lorenz | Swiss |