American University of Ras Al Khaimah hosted over 1200 trainees at the Science Film Festival 2017. The festival is a celebration of scientific research communication in Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, produced by the Goethe-Institut, Germanys Cultural Institute operating worldwide. Together with local partners to advertise science proficiency and helps with awareness of modern clinical, technical and ecological issues by movie and television content.

Professor Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim, President, AURAK said: "We are pleased to host Scientific research Film Festival 2017 at American University of Ras Al Khaimah, as this kind of clinical events shows that science can be interacted in an academic, in addition to amusing way with audio-visual media that assists in establishing the science culture our students."

This year's theme was ANTHROPOCENE - Thanks For Visiting the Age of Human - agriculture, trade, transport, and industry: As long as humans have existed we have actually been making use of and altering our atmosphere. Industrialization, particularly, has actually added to the unmistakable and commonly irreversible fingerprint that we are making after the Planet. Today, the human imprint is so deep and prevalent that scientists, policymakers, and society are considering whether human-caused adjustments are influencing the geological document over the long term - whether we are, as a matter of fact, living in a new geological period called the Anthropocene.

Through chosen subjects such as urbanization, mobility, nature, evolution, food, and human-machine communication, the Science Movie Festival 2017 explores the past, existing, and future of mankind.