The festival featured works by Wong Kar-wai, Wang Xiaoshuai, Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan, Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Hugo Ng, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Guests included Wu Baohe, a professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, Marco Ceresa, and Marcello Ghirardi.
The second year of the BigScreen festival took place from 24-28 October 2005, featuring a selection of modern Thai cinema, a substantial display of short Korean films, a photographic exhibition, and a concert on Asian themes by Claudio Rocchetti.
This was accompanied by the presentation of works by more well-known producers, including Wang Xiaoshuai, Wong Karwai, Fruit Chan, Rintaro, Katsuhiro Otomo, Zhang Yang and Jia Zhangke.
The international jury included Wang Xiaoshuai, Jia Zhangke, artist Ye Yongqing, Marco Ceresa, and Song Jie, Dean of the Yunnan Arts Institute Cinema and Television Department.
The festival was co-organized by CinaOggi.it, GoKunming.com, Yunnan Experimental Film Base, under the patronage of Istituto Italiano di Cultura.