The 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 31 August 2005 to 10 September 2005, at Venice Lido in Italy.
Italian production and costume designer Dante Ferretti was the jury president for the main competition. Spanish actress Inés Sastre hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival. The Golden Lion was awarded to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.
Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli the recipients of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Digital films competed in all categories for the first time in the festival's history.
During this edition of the festival, an International Design Competition of the new Palazzo del Cinema took place. The winner of the competition was 5+1 & Rudy Ricciotti. The purpose of the new building is to house the main headquarters of the Film Festival, as well as congresses and cultural events.
The festival opened with Seven Swords by Tsui Hark, and closed with Perhaps Love by Peter Chan.
In a contest that examines all feature-length films that are first works present in the various sections of the Festival, this jury assigns the "Lion of the Future - Luigi De Laurentis award for best debut work" to one film, as well as a prize of Euro 100,000 put forward by Filmauro and of 20,000 metres of film stock offered by Kodak.
The following films were selected for the main competition:
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:
The following films were selected for the short films competition (Corto Cortissimo):
This is a retrospective section on Chinese cinema (1934 to 1990) and Japanese cinema (1926 to 1978). The films are listed here in chronological order.
A retrospective section on Italian film (1946 to 1976). This section is part of a planned 4-year retrospective on some lesser known sides of Italian Cinema that started on the 61st edition of the festival.
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 20th Venice International Film Critics' Week:
The following films were selected for the 2nd edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection: