| Saworoide | Tunde Kelani, Bukky Wright | Nigeria |
| Thatched Memories | — | Tiongkok |
| The Bone Collector | Phillip Noyce | Amerika Serikat |
| Traveling Saints | Alejandro Springall | Prancis, Kanada, Spanyol, Meksiko |
| Will to Live | Kaneto Shindō | Jepang |
| A Price Above Rubies | Boaz Yakin | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Aila | Rustam Ibrahimbeyov, Ramiz Hasanoglu | Azerbaijan |
| Checkpoint (1998 film) | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Rusia |
| Dancing at Lughnasa | Pat O'Connor | Britania Raya, Republik Irlandia, Amerika Serikat |
| Georgica | Sulev Keedus | Estonia |
| Girls' Night Out (film 1998) | Im Sang-soo | Korea Selatan |
| Hai Nguyet | Trần Mỹ Hà | Vietnam |
| Here Comes the Dawn | Zaza Urushadze | Georgia |
| Hurlyburly (film) | Anthony Drazan | Amerika Serikat |
| I Stand Alone | Gaspar Noé | Prancis |
| My Name Is Joe | Ken Loach | Prancis, Britania Raya, Jerman, Spanyol, Italia |
| Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes | Adrián Caetano, Bruno Stagnaro | Argentina |
| Rosie | Patrice Toye | Prancis, Belgia |
| Rusty: A Dog's Tale | Shuki Levy | Amerika Serikat |
| Sako's Wedding | Vladimir Prifti | Hungaria |
| Snake Eyes | Brian De Palma | Amerika Serikat |
| The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | Swedia, Denmark |
| The Lost Love | Saeid Asadi | Iran |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Dario Argento | Italia |
| The Players Club | Ice Cube | Amerika Serikat |
| The Rift | — | Slovenia |
| The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | Amerika Serikat |
| 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag | Tom Schulman | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| A Thousand Acres (film) | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Amerika Serikat |
| Ardena | Luca Barbareschi | Italia |
| Artemisia | Agnès Merlet | Prancis, Jerman, Italia |
| Breakdown | Jonathan Mostow | Amerika Serikat |
| Breaking Up | Robert Greenwald | Amerika Serikat |
| Character | Mike van Diem | Belgia, Belanda |
| Donnie Brasco (film) | Mike Newell | Amerika Serikat |
| Going All the Way | Mark Pellington | Amerika Serikat |
| Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Thomas Jahn | Jerman |
| La vuelta de El Coyote | Mario Camus | Spanyol |
| Love and Death on Long Island | Richard Kwietniowski | Britania Raya, Kanada |
| Minsara Kanavu | Rajiv Menon | India |
| One Night Stand | Mike Figgis | Amerika Serikat |
| Santo Luzbel | Miguel Sabido | Meksiko |
| Taste of Cherry | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| The Debt | Nicolás Buenaventura, Manuel José Álvarez | Kolombia |
| The Rainmaker | Francis Ford Coppola | Amerika Serikat |
| Welcome to Sarajevo | Michael Winterbottom | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| 2 Days in the Valley | John Herzfeld | Amerika Serikat |
| A Moment of Romance 3 | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |