North American Premieres
- Aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera by François Dupeyron
- Adoration by Atom Egoyan
- Appaloosa by Ed Harris
- Un Barrage center le pacifique by Rithy Panh
- Blindness by Fernando Meirelles
- The Brothers Bloom by Rian Johnson
- Un conte de Noël by Arnaud Desplechin
- Disgrace by Steve Jacobs
- Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino
- The Duchess by Saul Dibb
- Easy Virtue by Stephen Elliott
- Fifty Dead Men Walking by Kari Skogland
- Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner
- Genova by Michael Winterbottom
- Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone
- Good by Vincente Amorim
- The Good, the Bad, the Weird by Kim Jee-woon
- Heaven on Earth by Deepa Mehta
- The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- Is There Anybody There? by John Crowley
- It's Not Me by Philippe Falardeau
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond by Jodie Markell
- The Lucky Ones by Neil Burger
- Management by Stephen Belber
- Me and Orson Welles by Richard Linklater
- Miracle at St. Anna by Spike Lee
- Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Peter Sollett
- O' Horten by Bent Hamer
- One Week by Michael McGowan
- The Other Man by Richard Eyre
- Pedro by Nicholas Oceano
- Pride and Glory by Gavin O'Connor
- Rachel Getting Married by Jonathan Demme
- The Secret Life of Bees by Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Stone of Destiny by Charles Martin Smith
- Synecdoche, New York by Charlie Kaufman
- The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno by Kevin Smith
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