| Session number | Dates conducted | President of the jury | Participants |
| 1st |
October 16, 2000 - February 24, 2001 | Olivier Assayas | Caran Hartsfield, Marcell Ivanyi, Hanna Miettinen, Peter Sollett, Rachel Tillotson, Emily Young |
| 2nd |
March 1, 2001 - July 15, 2001 | Laurie Collyer, Maximiliano Lemcke Gonzalez, Iwona Siekierzynska, Ilgon Song, Djamshed Usmonov, Ken Yunome |
| 3rd |
October 1, 2001 - February 13, 2002 | Pascale Ferran | Newton Aduaka, Piotr Kielar, Lucrecia Martel, Michel Ange Quay, Aleksi Salmenperä, Nariman Turebayev |
| 4th |
February 21, 2002 - June 30, 2002 | Costa-Gavras | Alicia Duffy, Jens Jonsson, Emmanuel Kurewa, Sergeï Luchishin, Franco De Peña, Heng Tang |
| 5th |
October 1, 2002 - February 12, 2003 | André Delvaux | Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Edgar Bartenev, Anastas Charalampidis, Marc Hartmann, Diego Lerman, John Shank |
| 6th |
February 27, 2003 - July 11, 2003 | Francis Girod | Brahim Fritah, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Santiago Loza, Cath Le Couteur, Jinoh Park, Ulises Rosell, Dong-Il Shin |
| 7th |
October 1, 2003 - February 11, 2004 | Claire Denis | Veronica Chen, Kornel Mundruczó, Stephen Ellis, Karim Aïnouz, Marta Parlatore, Jacob Tschernia, Kirsi Marie Liimatainen |
| 8th |
February 27, 2004 - July 10, 2004 | Arnaud Desplechin | Hadar Friedlich, Céline Macherel, Vladimir Perisic, Jaime Rosales, Dorothée Van Den Berghe, Wang Bing |
| 9th |
October 1, 2004 - February 12, 2005 | Marion Vernoux | Tawfik Abu Wael, Celia Galan Julve, Brendan Grant, Nadine Labaki, Josué Méndez, Slava Ross |
| 10th |
February 28, 2005 - July 10, 2005 | Santiago Amigorena | Hernán Belón, Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, Noam Kaplan, Jeffrey St. Jules, Corneliu Porumboiu, Eduardo Valente |
| 11th |
October 3, 2005 - February 12, 2006 | Christine Laurent | Kim Hee-Jung, Raya Martin, Sameh Zoabi, Ben Hackworth, Santiago Palavecino, Mark Walker |
| 12th |
February 28, 2006 - July 10, 2006 | Bruno Dumont | Pablo Agüero, Amat Escalante, Kit Hui, Abay Kulbayev, Marianela Maldonado, Lucía Puenzo |
| 13th |
October 2, 2006 - February 9, 2007 | Rithy Panh | Antonio Campos, Natacha Feola, Babak Jalali, Sebastian Lelio, Alexis Dos Santos, Fien Troch |
| 14th |
March 1, 2007 - July 17, 2007 | Laurent Cantet | Rusudan Chkonia, Pelin Esmer, Mitra Farahani, Tan Chui Mui, Nadav Lapid, Milagros Mumenthaler |
| 15th |
October 1, 2007 - February 15, 2008 | Sébastien Lifshitz | Emilie Atef, Hagar Ben Asher, Barney Elliott, Xiaolu Guo, Rubén Imaz Castro, Pia Marais |
| 16th |
March 3, 2008 - July 15, 2008 | Gilles Jacob | Nikias Chryssos, Rebecca Daly, Manuel Nieto Zas, Adrian Sitaru, Francisco Vargas Quevedo, Yang Heng |
| 17th |
October 1, 2008 - February 15, 2009 | Babak Amini, Anna Faur, Aaron Fernandez, Alejandro Landes, Liew Seng Tat, Robin Weng |
| 18th |
March 2, 2009 - July 15, 2009 | Andreas Bolm, Julio Hernández Cordón, Yula Gidron, Rafael Kapelinski, Esteban Larrain, Martin Turk |
| 19th |
October 1, 2009 - February 15, 2010 | Paz Fabrega, Oliver Hermanus, Bani Khoshnoudi, Andrew Legge, Ioana Uricaru, Zhang Yue |
| 20th |
March 1, 2010 - July 15, 2010 | Daniel Joseph Borgman, Michel Franco, Cristián Jiménez, Yaelle Kayam, Franco Lolli, Dominga Sotomayor |
| 21st |
October 1, 2010 - February 15, 2011 | Chika Anadu, Fernando Guzzoni, Ronin Hsu, Rubén Mendoza, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Shahrabanoo Sadat |
| 22nd |
March 1, 2011 - July 15, 2011 | Sivaroj Kongsakul, Julia Kozyreva, David Nawrath, Laszlo Nemes, Pramote Sangsorn, Bohdana Smyrnova |
| 23rd |
October 3, 2011 - February 15, 2012 | Marí Alessandrini, René Ballesteros, Etienne Kallos, Mariko Saga, Christopher Murray, Felipe Sholl |
| 24th |
March 1, 2012 - July 15, 2012 | Jairo Boisier Olave, Alireza Khatami, Juliana Rojas, Jéro Yun, Pasquale Marino, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau |
| 25th |
October 1, 2012 - February 15, 2013 | Kamila Andini, Laura Astorga, Aygul Bakanova, Marina Meliande, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Jordan Schiele |
| 26th |
March 1, 2013 - July 15, 2013 | Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Rungano Nyoni, Adrián Saba, William Vega, Géraldine Zosso |
| 27th |
October 1, 2013 - February 15, 2014 | Giacomo Abbruzzese, Natalia Almada, Panayotis Christopoulos, Susan Gordanshekan, Hicham Lasri, Ma'ayan Rypp |
| 28th |
March 3, 2014 - July 15, 2014 | Caetano Gotardo, Gudmundur Gudmudsson, Sam Holst, Marcelo Martinessi, Marcela Saïd, Katarina Stankovic |
| 29th |
October 1, 2014 - February 15, 2015 | Alejandro Fadel, Damian John Harper, Hannaleena Hauru, Karim Moussaoui, Ruthy Pribar, Flora Lau |
| 30th |
March 2, 2015 - July 15, 2015 | Khadar Ahmed, Jonas Carpignano, Una Gunjak, Serhat Karaaslan, Gábor Reisz, Ernesto Villalobos |
| 31st |
October 1, 2015 - February 15, 2016 | Duccio Chiarini, Maya Da-Rin, Georgis Grigorakis, Zhou Hao, Déa Kulumbegashvili, Sebastián Schjaer |
| 32nd |
March 1, 2016 - July 15, 2016 | Ali Asgari, Nuno Baltazar, Federico Cecchetti, Omar El Zohairy, Gregorio Graziosi, Ivan Ikić |
| 33rd |
October 3, 2016 - February 15, 2017 | Lukas Dhont, Cenk Erturk, Takeshi Fukunaga, Zeno Graton, Caroline Monnet, Mees Peijnenburg |
| 34th |
March 1, 2017 - July 15, 2017 | Rati Tsiteladze, João Paulo Miranda Maria, JQIU Yang, Myrsini Aristidou, Carlo Sironi, Anwar Boulifa |
| 35th |
October 2, 2017 - February 15, 2018 | Mounia Akl, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Sharon Angelhart, Juan Sebastian Mesa, Teodora Ana Mihai, Kavich Neang |
| 36th |
March 1, 2018 - July 15, 2018 | César Augusto Acevedo, Chia-Hsin Liu, Min Bahadur Bham, Santiago Lozano, Sara Kern, Mariam (Bakacho) Khatchvan |
| 37th |
October 1, 2018 - February 15, 2019 |
Machérie Ekwa, Elena Lopez Riera, Marian Mathias, George Sikarulidze, Carla Simón, Tommaso Usberti |
| 38th |
March 1, 2019 - July 15, 2019 |
Aboozar Amini, Alvaro Aponte-Centeno, Diego Céspedes, Alireza Ghasemi, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Vinko Tomicic |
| 39th |
October 1, 2019–February 15, 2020 |
|
Wei Liang Chiang, Zi Gao, Urška Djukić, Rhys Jones, Raven Johnson, and Payal Kapadia |
| 40th |
February 2–July 11, 2020 |
|
Guillermo Galoe, Samuel Ishimwe, Rodrigo Barriuso, Bernhard Wenger, Hana Jušić, and Miki Polonski |
| 41st |
October 1, 2020–February 15, 2021 |
|
Thessa Meijer, Orkhan Aghazadeh, Saleh Kashefi, Rafael Mendoza, Henning Beckhoff, and Erenik Beqiri |
| 42nd |
February 27–July 11, 2021 |
|
Inbar Horesh, David Vicente, Azadi Behzad, Lucia Aleñar Iglesias, Marta Hernaiz Pidal, and Sameh Alaa |
| 43rd |
October 1, 2021–February 15, 2022 |
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Sabine Ehrl, Borbála Nagy, Judita Gamulin, Juan Cáceres, Maung Sun, and Rongfei Guo |
| 44th |
March 1–July 15, 2022 |
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Arvin Belarmino, Dina Duma, Andrei Epure, Resek Katarina, Flurin Giger, and Laura Wandel |
| 45th |
March 1–July 15, 2023 |
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Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Diana Mashanova, Laura Samani, Yi Tang, Morad Mostafa, and Mohammadreza Mayghani |
| 46th |
October 1, 2023–February 15, 2024 |
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Asmae El Moudir, Meltse Van Coillie, Andrea Slavicek, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Hao Zhao, and Gessica Généus |
| 47th |
March 15–July 31, 2024 |
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Danech San, Molly Manning Walker, Aditya Ahmad, Ernst de Geer, Daria Kashcheeva, and Anastasiia Solonevych |
| 48th |
October 1, 2024 – February 15, 2025 |
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Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard, Sofia Alaoui, Anastasia Veber, Diwa Shah, Eglė Razumaitė, and Theo Montoya |
| 49th |
March 15, 2025 - July 31, 2025 |
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Flóra Anna Buda, Andrea Gatopoulos, Xiwen Cong, Simon Maria Kubiena, Constance Tsang and Rodrigo Ribeyro[11] |
