Country: Film (Director)

• Albania: The Delegation (Directed by: Bujar Alimani)
• Algeria: Papicha (Directed by: Mounia Meddour)
• Argentina: Heroic Losers (Directed by: Sebastián Borensztein)
• Armenia: Lengthy Night (Directed by: Edgar Baghdasaryan)
• Australia: Buoyancy (Directed by: Rodd Rathjen)
• Bangladesh: Alpha (Directed by: Nasiruddin Yousuff)
• Belarus: Debut (Directed by: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko)
• Belgium: Our Mothers (Directed by: César Díaz)
• Bolivia: I Miss You (Directed by: Rodrigo Bellott)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Son (Directed by: Ines Tanovic)
• Brazil: Invisible Life (Directed by: Karim Aïnouz)
• Bulgaria: Ága (Directed by: Milko Lazarov)
• Cambodia: In the Life of Music (Directed by: Caylee So, Sok Visal)
• Canada: Antigone (Directed by: Sophie Deraspe)
• Chile: Spider (Directed by: Andrés Wood)
• China: Ne Zha (Directed by: Yu Yang)
• Colombia: Monos (Directed by: Alejandro Landes)
• Costa Rica: The Awakening of the Ants (Directed by: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss)
• Croatia: Mali (Directed by: Antonio Nuic)
• Cuba: A Translator (Directed by: Rodrigo Barriuso, Sebastián Barriuso)
• Czech Republic: The Painted Bird (Directed by: Václav Marhoul)
• Denmark: Queen of Hearts (Directed by: May el-Toukhy)
• Dominican Republic: The Projectionist (Directed by: José María Cabral)
• Ecuador: The Longest Night (Directed by: Gabriela Calvache)
• Egypt: Poisonous Roses (Directed by: Ahmed Fawzi Saleh)
• Estonia: Truth and Justice (Directed by: Tanel Toom)
• Ethiopia: Running against the Wind (Directed by: Jan Philipp Weyl)
• Finland: Stupid Young Heart (Directed by: Selma Vilhunen)
• France: Les Misérables (Directed by: Ladj Ly)
• Georgia: Shindisi (Directed by: Dimitri Tsintsadze)
• Germany: System Crasher (Directed by: Nora Fingscheidt)
• Ghana: Azali (Directed by: Kwabena Gyansah)
• Greece: When Tomatoes Met Wagner (Directed by: Marianna Economou)
• Honduras: Blood, Passion, and Coffee (Directed by: Carlos Membreño)
• Hong Kong: The White Storm 2 Drug Lords (Directed by: Herman Yau)
• Hungary: Those Who Remained (Directed by: Barnabás Tóth)
• Iceland: A White, White Day (Directed by: Hlynur Pálmason)
• India: Gully Boy (Directed by: Zoya Akhtar)
• Indonesia: Memories of My Body (Directed by: Garin Nugroho)
• Iran: Finding Farideh (Directed by: Azadeh Moussavi, Kourosh Ataee)
• Ireland: Gaza (Directed by: Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell)
• Israel: Incitement (Directed by: Yaron Zilberman)
• Italy: The Traitor (Directed by: Marco Bellocchio)
• Japan: Weathering with You (Directed by: Makoto Shinkai)
• Kazakhstan: Kazakh Khanate. The Golden Throne (Directed by: Rustem Abdrashov)
• Kenya: Subira (Directed by: Ravneet Singh (Sippy) Chadha)
• Kosovo: Zana (Directed by: Antoneta Kastrati)
• Kyrgyzstan: Aurora (Directed by: Bekzat Pirmatov)
• Latvia: The Mover (Directed by: Davis Simanis)
• Lebanon: 1982 (Directed by: Oualid Mouaness)
• Lithuania: Bridges of Time (Directed by: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede)
• Luxembourg: Tel Aviv on Fire (Directed by: Sameh Zoabi)
• Malaysia: M for Malaysia (Directed by: Dian Lee, Ineza Roussille)
• Mexico: The Chambermaid (Directed by: Lila Avilés)
• Mongolia: The Steed (Directed by: Erdenebileg Ganbold)
• Montenegro: Neverending Past (Directed by: Andro Martinovic)
• Morocco: Adam (Directed by: Maryam Touzani)
• Nepal: Bulbul (Directed by: Binod Paudel)
• Netherlands: Instinct (Directed by: Halina Reijn)
• North Macedonia: Honeyland (Directed by: Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska)
• Norway: Out Stealing Horses (Directed by: Hans Petter Moland)
• Pakistan: Laal Kabootar (Directed by: Kamal Khan)
• Palestine: It Must Be Heaven (Directed by: Elia Suleiman)
• Panama: Everybody Changes (Directed by: Arturo Montenegro)
• Peru: Retablo (Directed by: Alvaro Delgado Aparicio)
• Philippines: Verdict (Directed by: Raymund Ribay Gutierrez)
• Poland: Corpus Christi (Directed by: Jan Komasa)
• Portugal: The Domain (Directed by: Tiago Guedes)
• Romania: The Whistlers (Directed by: Corneliu Porumboiu)
• Russia: Beanpole (Directed by: Kantemir Balagov)
• Saudi Arabia: The Perfect Candidate (Directed by: Haifaa Al Mansour)
• Senegal: Atlantics (Directed by: Mati Diop)
• Serbia: King Petar the First (Directed by: Petar Ristovski)
• Singapore: A Land Imagined (Directed by: Yeo Siew Hua)
• Slovakia: Let There Be Light (Directed by: Marko Skop)
• Slovenia: History of Love (Directed by: Sonja Prosenc)
• South Africa: Knuckle City (Directed by: Jahmil X.T. Qubeka)
• South Korea: Parasite (Directed by: Bong Joon Ho)
• Spain: Pain and Glory (Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar)
• Sweden: And Then We Danced (Directed by: Levan Akin)
• Switzerland: Wolkenbruch’s Wondrous Journey into the Arms of a Shiksa (Directed by: Michael Steiner)
• Taiwan: Dear Ex (Directed by: Mag Hsu, Chih-Yen Hsu)
• Thailand: Krasue: Inhuman Kiss (Directed by: Sitisiri Mongkolsiri)
• Tunisia: Dear Son (Directed by: Mohamed Ben Attia)
• Turkey: Commitment Asli (Directed by: Semih Kaplanoglu)
• Ukraine: Homeward (Directed by: Nariman Aliev)
• United Kingdom: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Directed by: Chiwetel Ejiofor)
• Uruguay: The Moneychanger (Directed by: Federico Veiroj)
• Uzbekistan: Hot Bread (Directed by: Umid Khamdamov)
• Venezuela: Being Impossible (Directed by: Patricia Ortega)
• Vietnam: Furie (Directed by: Le Van Kiet)

Notes:
The entry for Nigeria, Lionheart (Directed by: Genevieve Nnaji) was disqualified due to the film being primarily in English.
The entry for Austria, Joy (Directed by: Sudabeh Mortezai) was disqualified due to the film being primarily in English.