The 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival opened on 31 August 2005 with Tsui Hark's Seven Swords[1] and closed on 10 September 2005 with a screening of Peter Ho-sun Chan's musical Perhaps Love.

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki[3] and Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli[4] were both awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

The purpose of the new building is to house the main headquarters of the Film Festival, as well as congresses and cultural events.

Works by directors already established in past editions of the Festival, and films deemed appropriate for a midnight screening.

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.