Meet the family that created Palestine's first beer and see a different side of Palestine, where Jews, Muslims and Christians all drink together in peace.

Nadim's mission is to get everyone drunk and happy! Meet the father and daughter team who created Palestine's first beer and see a different side of Palestine, where Jews, Muslims and Christians all drink together in peace. This is a heart warming story of success which touches on the politics of Jewish settlements, control of natural resources and the difficulties of doing business under occupation. Filmed at the Oktoberfest in the Christian town of Taybeh on Palestine's West Bank - this is a light, festive and positive story from Palestine that you never get to see.

The world is focused on the Middle East at the moment. The news isn’t complete without hearing about Iraq’s security situation worsening, another Taliban bomb exploding in Kabul, protesters arrested in Iran and the never ending negotiation for peace in Israel and Occupied Palestine.

But there is another side and as a filmmaker I love to surprise people with a different way of seeing things.

One thing I noticed about people generally, including myself, was how little we know about the situation in Palestine and what we have been subliminally manipulated to believe through the nightly news.

Growing up in Australia I had friends who were from the UK, from Africa, from Asia, but I had never met anyone from Palestine. Because of this, the only concept of what Palestine was like was from the nightly news with images of grief, anger, violence and poverty. When I finally did meet some Palestinians I couldn’t believe how much my view of their culture has been skewed by the Western media. These Palestinians that I kept meeting were educated, creative, wealthy, peaceful and generous, a total contradiction to what I had been led to believe.

When I heard about the beer festival, I jumped at the chance to document it as there may not be an easier way to create an understanding between cultures than through beer. With this common factor, the politics and the people are more easily identified with, and therefore more easily understood.

Through this very hard working family, the light heartedness of the festival and the fact that it is all in English I hope the viewer can gain a better appreciation of what is going on in Palestine and hopefully feel a little closer to a people and a culture that is a million miles from them.