Founded in 1995 on the occasion of the Centenary of Cinema and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations and the Barcelona Declaration, the MedFilm, Rome's only international competition festival recognized in over fourthly countries, festival sustains collaborations between neighbouring nations through high quality cinema projects for the purpose of encouraging the foundations of social and humanistic relationships between Euro-Mediterranean countries, particularly focussing on film and television works coming from the Euro-Mediterranean area.