- Siddiq Barmak (2)
Albania
Algeria
- The Battle of Algiers* (1966)
- L'opium et le baton (Ahmed Rachedi, 1969)
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, 1975)
- Omar Gatlato (Merzak Allouache, 1976)
- Until the Birds Return (Karim Moussaoui, 2017)
Argentina
- The Secret in their Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, 2009)
- La hora de los hornos (F. Solanas & O. Getino, 1968)
- Lisandro Alonso (2)
- Lucrecia Martel (4)
- Mariano Llinas (2)
- The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, 1985)
- Hombre mirando al sudeste (Eliseo Subiela, 1986)
- Martin Rejtman (1)
- Elefante blanco (Pablo Trapero, 2012)
- Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014)
- Road to La Paz (Francisco Varone, 2014)
- El Movimiento (Benjamin Naishtat, 2015)
- The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams, 2016)
- Claudio Caldini (1)
- The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)
Austria
- Michael Haneke
- Ulrich Seidl
- Antares (Gotz Spielmann, 2004)
- Markus Schleinzer (2)
- Peter Tscherkassky
Bahrain
Bangladesh
- A River Called Titash (1973, Ritwik Ghatak)
Belgium
- Dardenne Brothers (7)
- Man Bites Dog (1992)
- Mr Nobody* (2009)
- Bullhead (2011)
- Our Children (2012)
Bolivia
- Blood of the Condor (1969, Jorge Sanjines)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
- Limite (1931, Mario Peixoto)
- Orfeu Negro* (1959)
- Os Cafajestes (1962, Rui Guerra)
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos (3)
- Glauber Rocha (3)
- Pixote (1981)
- Central Station (1998)
- City of God (2002)
- Araby (2017, Affonso Uchoa & Joao Dumans)
- Kleber Mendonça Filho (2)
- Cinema Novo (documentary, 2016, Eryk Rocha)
- In the Intense Now (2017, João Moreira Salles)
Bulgaria
- Kozijat Rog (1972)
- Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993)
Burundi
Cambodia
- Rithy Panh* (3)
- Muna Moto
Central African Republic
Chad
- Mahamat Saleh Haroun (2)
Chile
- Patricio Guzman (2)
- Pablo Larrain (3)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky* (2)
- Una mujer fantastica (2017, Sebastian Lelio)
- The Wolf House (2018)
- The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934)
- The Big Road (Sun Yu, 1934)
- Street Angel (Yuan Muzhi, 1937)
- Fei Mu (2)
- Xie Jin (3)
- The One and Eight (Zhang Junzhao, 1983)
- The Black Cannon Incident (Huang Jianxin, 1985)
- Sacrificed Youth (Zhuang Nuanxin, 1985)
- Chen Kaige (6)
- Zhang Yimou (10)
- Tian Zhuangzhuang (3)
- Black Snow (Xie Fei, 1990)
- Ermo (Zhou Xiaowen, 1994)
- Blush (Li Shaohong, 1995)
- Little Red Flowers (Zhang Yuan, 2006)
- Jia Zhangke (9)
- Wang Xiaoshuai (5)
- Jiang Wen (3)
- Ning Ying (2)
- Wang Bing (2)
- Lou Ye (5)
- Li Yang (2)
- City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan, 2009)
- China's Bleak House (Zhao Liang, 2011)
- Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan, 2014)
- Bi Gan (2)
- Crosscurrent (Yang Chao, 2016)
- The Summer is Gone (Zhang Dalei, 2016)
- Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu, 2017)
- Have a Nice Day (Liu Jian, 2017)
- Maria, Full of Grace* (2004)
- Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2016)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Lumumba* (2000, Raoul Peck)
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
- Soy Cuba* (1964)
- Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968)
Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia
- Milos Forman* (4)
- Ikarie XB1 (1963, J. Polak)
- Intimate Lighting (1965, Ivan Passer)
- The Shop on Main Street (1965)
- And the Fifth Horseman was Fear (1965)
- Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilova)
- A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Nemec, 1966)
- The Cremator (1968, Juraj Herz)
- The Ear (1970, Karel Kachyna)
- The Witchhammer (1970, Otakar Vavra)
- Frantisek Vlacil (3)
- Jiri Menzel (2)
- Jaromil Jires (2)
- Kolya (1996)
- Jan Svankmajer
- I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
- Carl Theodor Dreyer (5)
- Haxan (1922)
- Hunger (1966)
- Lars von Trier ()
- Thomas Vinterberg* (3)
- Susanne Bier (2)
Dominica
Dominican Republic
- Cocote (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, 2017)
Ecuador
Egypt
- Youssef Chahine (4)
- Henry Barakat (2)
- Shadi Abdel-Salam (2)
- The Will (1939, Kamal Selim)
- The Road (1964, Houssam El-Din Mustafa)
- Clash (2016, Mohamed Diab)
- The Nile Hilton Incident (2017, Tariq Saleh)
- Sheikh Jackson (2017, Amr Salama)
- The Houses are Full of Smoke Part 2*
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
- Harvest 3000 Years (Haile Gerima)
Fiji
Finland
- Aki Kaurismaki (6)
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (Juho Kuosmanen, 2016)
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
- Falling Leaves (Otar Iosseliani, 1966)
- Scary Mother (Ana Urushadze, 2017)
Ghana
Greece
- Theo Angelopoulos (1)
- Yorgos Lanthimos (1)
Grenada
Guatemala
- The Houses are Full of Smoke Part 1*
- Ixcanul (2015, Jayro Bustamante)
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
- Raoul Peck
Honduras
Hungary
- Bela Tarr (2)
- Miklos Jancso (3)
- Szindbád (1971, Zoltan Huszarik)
- Love (1971, Karoly Makk)
- White God (2014)
- Son of Saul (2015, Laszlo Nemes)
- Strangled (2016, Arpad Sopsits)
- Ildikó Enyedi (2)
Iceland
India
- Bimal Roy (2)
- Satyajit Ray (15)
- Ritwik Ghatak (2)
- Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor)
- The Hungry Stones (1960, Tapan Sinha)
- Uski Roti (Mani Kaul, 1970)
- Salaam Bombay (Mira Nair, 1988)
- Ram Ke Naam (Anand Patwardhan, 1992)
- I.D. (2012, Kamal K.M)
- The Lunchbox (2013)
- Newton (2017, Amit Masurkar)
- After the Curfew (Usmar Ismail, 1954)
- The Act of Killing*/The Look of Silence* (2012/2014)
- Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017, Mouly Surya)
- Edwin (2)
- Teguh Karya (0)
- Abbas Kiarostami* (15)
- Jafar Panahi (7)
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf (7)
- Samira Makhmalbaf (2)
- Kamran Shirdel (4)
- Dariush Mehrjui (3)
- Asghar Farhadi* (5)
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (2)
- Khosrow Sinai (2)
- The House is Black (1963, Forough Farrokhzad)
- Brick and Mirror (1965, Ebrahim Golestan)
- The Spring (1972, Arby Ovanessian)
- The Mongols (1973, Parviz Kimiavi)
- Prince Ehtejab (1974, Bahman Farmanara)
- Shohrab Shahid Saless (2)
- Amir Naderi (2)
- Bahram Beyzai (2)
- The Key (1987, Ebrahim Forouzesh)
- Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, 1997)
- The Day I Became a Woman (2000, Marzieh Meshkini)
- Low Heights (2002, Ebrahim Hatamikia)
- Turtles Can Fly (2004, Bahman Ghobadi)
- Cafe Transit (2005, Kambuzia Partovi)
- God is Near (2006, Ali Vazirian)
- Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007, Hana Makhmalbaf)
- Please Don't Disturb (2010)
- Modest Reception (Mani Haghighi, 2012)
- Fish and Cat (2013, Shahram Mokri)
- Melbourne (2014)
- Pope (2014, Ehsan Abdipour)
- Don't Be Tired (2014)
- Neurasthenia (2014)
- With Others (Nasser Zamiri, 2014)
- Unwished (2015)
- Nahid (Ida Panahandeh, 2015)
- Lantouri (2016, Reza Dormishian)
- Tehran Taboo (2017)
- Tehran: City of Love (2018, Ali Jaberansari)
Iraq
- Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015, Abbas Fahdel)
- The Journey (2017, Mohammed Al-Daradji)
Israel
- Avi Mograbi (2)
- Ari Folman* (2)
Jordan
- Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar, 2015)
Kazakhstan
- Revenge (Ermek Shinarbaev, 1989)
Kenya
Kosovo
Kuwait
- The Cruel Sea (1972, Khalid Al Siddiq)
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
- Ziad Doueiri (2)
- Nadine Labaki (2)
- Yara (2018, Abbas Fahdel)
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
- Before the Rain (1994)
Malawi
Malaysia
- Sepet (2005, Yasmin Ahmad)
- Flower in the Pocket (2007, Liew Seng Tat)
- Shuttle Life (2017, Tang Seng Kiat)
Maldives
Mali
- Abderrahmane Sissako* (4)
- Souleymane Cissé (1)
Mauritania
- Abderrahmane Sissako* (4)
- Soleil Ô (1967, Med Hondo)
- Luis Buñuel (2)
- Redes (1936)
- Enamorada (Emilio Fernandez, 1946)
- Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein, 1996)
- Amores Perros (2000)
- Alfonso Cuaron* (3)
- Leap Year (Michael Rowe, 2010)
- La region salvaje (Amat Escalante, 2016)
Mongolia
- The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005, Byambasuren Davaa)
Montenegro
Morocco
- A Thousand and One Hands (Souheil Ben-Barka, 1973)
- Trances (Ahmed Al Maanouni, 1981)
- Nabil Ayouch (2)
- Mille Mois (Faouzi Bensaidi, 2003)
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
- The Vanishing (1988)
- The Houses are Full of Smoke Part 3*
Nigeria
North Korea
- A Broad Bellflower (1987)
Norway
- Joachim Trier (2)
- Insomnia (1997)
- Ni Liv (1957)
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
- Hany Abu-Assad (2)
- Elia Suleiman (4)
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
- When Two Worlds Collide (2016, Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel)
- Song Without a Name (Melina Leon, 2019)
Philippines
- Three Years Without God (1976, Mario O'Hara)
- Perfumed Nightmare (1977, Kidlat Tahimik)
- Brillante Mendoza (3)
- Lino Brocka (3)
- Lav Diaz (3)
- Ishmael Bernal (1)
- Graceland (2012, Ron Morales)
- On the Job (2013, Erik Matti)
- Andrzej Wajda (5)
- Andrzej Munk (1)
- Jerzy Skolimowski (2)
- Kzryzstof Zanussi (4)
- Roman Polanski* ()
- Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
- The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, Wojciech Has)
- Interrogation (1980)
- Kzryzstof Kieslowski*
- Escape from the Liberty Cinema (1990, Wojciech Marczewski)
- Aniki Bobo (1942, Manoel de Oliveira)
- Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
- Tabu (2011, Miguel Gomes)
- The Ornithologist (2016, Joao Pedro Rodrigues)
Romania
- Cristian Mungiu (3)
- Cristi Puiu (3)
- Corneliu Porumboiu (4)
- Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010)
- Child's Pose (2013, Calin Peter Netzer)
- Radu Jude (2)
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
- Wadjda (2012)
Senegal
- Djibril Diop Mambety (3)
- Ousmane Sembene (7)
- Toubab Bi (Moussa Toure, 1991)
- Atlantiques (Mati Diop, 2019)
Serbia
- Dusan Makavejev (4)
- Emir Kusturica* (2)
- I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Aleksandr Petrovic, 1967)
- Balkan Spy (1984)
- Pretty Village Pretty Flame (1996, Srdan Dragojevic)
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
- Eric Khoo (2)
- Anthony Chen (2)
- Untracing the Conspiracy (Jason Khoo, 2015)
- Lulu the Movie (2016)
- Pop Aye (Kristen Tan, 2016)
- A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua, 2018)
- Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
- Tsotsi (2005, Gavin Hood)
- U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
- The Wound (2017, John Trengove)
South Korea
- The Hand of Fate (1955, Han Hyeong-mo)
- The Coachman
- The Housemaid (1960, Kim Ki-young)
- Aimless Bullet
- Shin Sang-ok (0)
- Kim Soo-yong (3)
- Lee Man-hee (3)
- The Last Witness (1980, Lee Doo-yong)
- Lee Jang-ho (2)
- Im Kwon-taek (6)
- Jang Sun-woo (3)
- Park Kwang-su (2)
- Hong Sang-soo (4)
- The President's Barber (Lim Chan-sang, 2004)
- Na Hong-jin (2)
- A Girl at My Door (2014, July Jung)
- Collective Invention (2015, Kwon Oh-kwang)
- Kim Jee-woon (3)
- Memoir of a Murderer (2017, Won Shin-yeon)
- Bong Joon-ho (5)
- Lee Chang-dong (6)
- Kim Ki-duk (2)
- Park Chan-wook (4)
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
- Talking About Trees (2019)
Swaziland
Switzerland
Syria
- The Dupes (1972, Tawfik Saleh)
- Nabil Maleh (2)
- Omar Amiralay (2)
- Dreams of the City (1984, Mohammed Malas)
- Silvered Water (2014, Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Bedirxan)
- Last Men in Aleppo (2017, Feras Fayyad)
Taiwan
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien (17)
- Edward Yang (7)
- Tsai Ming-Liang (7)
- Ang Lee* (1)
- In Our Time (1982)
- The Sandwich Man (1983)
- Growing Up (Chen Kunhou/HHH, 1983)
- A Borrowed Life (Wu Nien-jen, 1994)
- Adon Wu (2)
- The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao, 2017)
- Cities of Last Things (Wi Ding Ho, 2018)
Tanzania
Thailand
- Butterfly & Flowers (Euthana Mukdasanit, 1985)
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul (4)
- Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (2)
- Pop Aye (Kristen Tan, 2016)
- By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016)
- Malila: The Farewell Flower (Anucha Boonyawatana, 2017)
Tunisia
- The Dove's Lost Necklace (Nacer Khemir, 1992)
Turkey
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (7)
- Yilmaz Guney (2)
- Dry Summer (Metin Erksan, 1964)
- The Law of the Border (Lutfi O. Akad, 1966)
Uganda
Ukraine
- The Tribe (2014)
- Sergei Loznitsa* (14)
Uruguay
- Una vida util (2010, Federico Veiroj)
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
- From Afar (2015, Lorenzo Vigas)
Vietnam
- The Little Girl of Hanoi (1975)
- Tran Anh Hung (2)
- Dang Nhat Minh (2)
Zambia
- I Am Not a Witch (2017, Rungano Nyoni)
Zimbabwe