Looking for something inspirational to do this Valentine’s weekend?

Bermuda Docs will be showing two documentaries for local film buffs on Sunday.

‘Music for Mandela’, the winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2013 Amnesty International Film Festival in Vancouver, looks at the role music played in the life of South African statesman Nelson Mandela. It will screen in the Tradewinds Auditorium of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute on Sunday at 3pm.

While award-winning documentary ‘More than Honey’, about the global bee crisis, will show at 5.15pm. Local beekeeper Jenny Faries will also be on hand after the screening to provide an update on Bermuda’s bee population, and take audience questions.

Writer and director Jason Bourque takes a look at how resistance songs kept hope alive for the anti-apartheid movement, even as its most prominent leaders were imprisoned, in the film ‘Music for Mandela’.

The documentary includes musical performances by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Mandela’s favourite group), Vusi Mahlasela and the Soweto Gospel Choir. It also features clips from some of Mr Mandela’s friends, fellow political prisoners and his grandson, hip hop artist Bambatha Mandela. It is described as a “stirring tribute” to one of the world’s most important icons.

The second film showing this weekend is ‘More than Honey’. Filmed by Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof, it tackles the vexing issue of why bees around the world are dying off.

Described as a “spectacularly beautiful film”, it shows one man’s tenacity to solve this world-class mystery as Mr Imhoof travels around the world, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia, trying to investigate the global phenomenon.

The film picked up numerous awards, including the prize of Best Documentary at the German, Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian film awards; and received the Audience Award at the UK Green Film Festival.

Trailers of both films can be viewed at www.bermudadocs.com.

Tickets can be picked up at the Oceans Gift Shop at the BUEI, or reserved by calling 294-0204.

The ‘Weekend Film Series’, sponsored by Gosling’s, is a joint production of Bermuda Documentary Film Festival director Duncan Hall and the BUEI.