| 2021 Portuguese short film directed by Filipe Melo | Filipe Melo | Canadá |
| Alegría | Violeta Salama | España, Estados Unidos |
| Chocolate Revolver | Nikita Mijalkov | Rusia |
| Cómo mueren las reinas | Lucas Nazareno Turturro | Argentina |
| Distancia de rescate | Claudia Llosa | España, Chile, Estados Unidos, Perú |
| Her Way | Cécile Ducrocq | Francia |
| Kaagaz | Satish Kaushik | India |
| Major | — | India |
| Naked Singularity | Chase Palmer | Estados Unidos |
| Sandra Gets a Job | Kaupo Kruusiauk | Estonia |
| The Hole | Michelangelo Frammartino | Francia, Alemania, Italia |
| The Last Letter from Your Lover | Augustine Frizzell | Francia, Reino Unido |
| The Mute Man of Sardinia | — | Italia |
| The Swimmer (película de 2021) | Adam Kalderon | Israel |
| Yo nena, yo princesa | Federico Palazzo | Argentina |
| Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti | Aritra Mukherjee | India |
| Charm City Kings | Ángel Manuel Soto | Estados Unidos |
| Dietro la notte | Daniele Falleri | Italia |
| Everything's Gonna Be Alright | Francesco Bruni | Italia |
| Force of Nature | Michael Polish | Estados Unidos |
| Greenland | Ric Roman Waugh | Estados Unidos |
| Hero | Yoon Je-kyoon | Corea del Sur |
| La nube | Just Philippot | Francia |
| Mosquito State | Filip Jan Rymsza | Estados Unidos, Polonia |
| Pawn | Kang Dae-gyu | Corea del Sur |
| Shirley | Josephine Decker | Estados Unidos |
| Tereza37 | Danilo Šerbedžija | Croacia |
| Tesla | Michael Almereyda | Estados Unidos |
| The Portrait of a Nightmare | Ismail Basbeth | Indonesia |
| Wendy (película) | Benh Zeitlin | Estados Unidos |
| Where No One Knows Us | Arash T. Riahi | Austria |
| 4.3 Story | — | Corea del Sur |
| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Marielle Heller | Estados Unidos |
| A Resistance | — | Corea del Sur |
| A Russian Youth | Aleksandr Zolotukhin | Rusia |
| Advantages of Travelling by Train | Aritz Moreno | Francia, España |
| Alpha | Nasiruddin Yousuff | Bangladés |
| Back from the Beat | Choi Changhwan | Corea del Sur |
| Batman: Hush | Justin Copeland | Estados Unidos |
| Birthday | — | Corea del Sur |
| Blind Spot | Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic | Francia |
| Breve historia del planeta verde | Santiago Loza | Brasil, Alemania, España, Argentina |
| Cheer Up, Mr. Lee | Lee Gae-byok | Corea del Sur |
| Crypto | John Stalberg, Jr. | Estados Unidos |
| Dogs Don't Wear Pants | Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää | Finlandia |
| Driveways | Andrew Ahn | Estados Unidos |
| Family Affair | — | Corea del Sur |
| Finales, principios | Drake Doremus | Estados Unidos, Corea del Sur |