Antonio Campos from NYU won the 1st Prize in the Cinendation competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festiva for his film, "Buy It Now". 18 films were in competition this year for the award, judged by jurors Edward Yang, Chantal Akerman, Sylvie Testud, Colin MacCabe, and Yousry Nasrallah.

The 2nd Prize was shared by Nikolay Khomeriki for "Vdvoyom" (A Deux) from La fes in France and Maya Dreifuss for "Bikur Holim" from Tel Aviv University in Israel. The 3rd Prize was shared by Roland Edzard for "La Plaine" from Le Fresnoy in France and Sameh Zoabi for "Be Quiet" from Columbia University.