Galas
- Artemisia by Agnès Merlet
- The Assignment by Christian Duguay
- Chinese Box by Wayne Wang
- The Edge by Lee Tamahori
- Eve's Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
- FairyTale: A True Story by Charles Sturridge
- Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
- In & Out by Frank Oz
- L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
- Marquise by Véra Belmont
- Men with Guns by John Sayles
- Mrs Dalloway by Marleen Gorris
- Regeneration by Gillies MacKinnon
- Seven Years in Tibet by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan
- Swept from the Sea by Beeban Kidron
- Washington Square by Agnieszka Holland
- The Wings of the Dove by Iain Softley
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