Contemporary World Cinema
- The Assistant by Daniel Petrie
- Bird Watching by Shinobu Yaguchi
- Blinded by Daniel Calparsoro
- Brain Holiday by Hineki Mito
- Brother by Aleksei Balabanov
- C'est la tangente que je préfère by Charlotte Silvera
- Character by Mike van Diem
- Clandestins by Denis Chouinard and Nicolas Wadimoff
- Close To by David Ottenhouse
- Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman Leeson
- Delirium by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes
- Des majorettes dans l'espace by David Fourier
- Devil's Island by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
- Doing Time for Patsy Cline by Chris Kennedy
- East Palace, West Palace by Zhang Yuan
- Four Days in September by Bruno Barreto
- A Friend of the Deceased by Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch and Leonid Boyko
- Un frère... by Sylvie Verheyde
- The Girl with Brains in Her Feet by Roberto Bangura
- Gummo by Harmony Korine
- Hanoi-Winter 1946 by Dang Nhat Minh
- Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai
- Heaven's Burning by Craig Lahiff
- Homesick Eyes by Hsu Hsiao-ming
- I Think I Do by Brian Sloan
- Silvester Countdown by Oskar Roehler
- Inside/Out by Robert Tregenza
- Insomnia by Erik Skjoldbjærg
- The James Gang by Mike Barker
- Junk Food by Masashi Yamamoto
- Junk Mail by Pål Sletaune
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Robert Bierman
- Kiss or Kill by Bill Bennett
- Labyrinth of Dreams by Gakuryū Ishii
- The Leading Hand by Masahiro Muramatsu
- Long Twilight by Attila Janisch
- Love and Death on Long Island by Richard Kwietniowski
- Ma vie en rose by Alain Berliner
- The Maker by Tim Hunter
- The Man in Her Life by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
- Marius and Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
- Metroland by Philip Saville
- The Mirror by Jafar Panahi
- Misfortune's End by Vu Xuan Hung
- Murmur of Youth by Lin Cheng-sheng
- The Myth of Fingerprints by Bart Freundlich
- Nettoyage à sec by Anne Fontaine
- No Child of Mine by Peter Kosminsky
- Obsession by Peter Sehr
- Okke-ke Bibirobos by Takuji Suzuki
- Onibi by Rokurō Mochizuki
- Our Boy by David Evans
- The Oyster and the Wind by Walter Lima, Jr.
- Ashes of Paradise by Marcelo Piñeyro
- Passage by Juraj Herz
- Port Djema by Eric Heumann
- After Sex by Brigitte Roüan
- Private Confessions by Liv Ullmann
- Rizal sa Dapitan by Tikoy Aguiluz
- The Rocking Horse Winner by Michael Almereyda
- The Soong Sisters by Mabel Cheung
- Stolen Moments by Oscar Barney Finn
- Sue Lost in Manhattan by Amos Kollek
- Suzaku by Naomi Kawase
- Telling Lies in America by Guy Ferland
- Their Last Love Affair by Lee Myung-se
- They Call Me Joy by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
- Thirteen by David D. Williams
- Touch Me by H. Gordon Boos
- Touch Me Not by Dimitrios Yatzouzakis
- La Vérité si je mens ! by Thomas Gilou
- Vertical Love by Arturo Sotto Díaz
- La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
- Le voleur de diagonale by Jean Darrigol
- We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario
- Western by Manuel Poirier
- Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
- The Witman Boys by János Szász
- Wolves Cry Under the Moon by Ho Ping
- Yours and Mine by Wang Shaudi
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