An award-winning documentary about the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage is to screen in Bermuda.

The Case Against 8, which won a directing award at the Sundance Film Festival, is to screen on Sunday at 5.30pm in the Tradewinds Auditorium of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.

The high-profile trial featured the unlikely legal pairing of top attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing counsel in Bush v Gore — but who teamed up to challenge Proposition 8, which took away the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.

The film follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples who find their families at the centre of the same-sex marriage controversy.

Five years in the making, this is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the United States Supreme Court.

Tickets are on sale now at the Oceans Gift Shop, BUEI, or by calling 294-0204. A trailer of the film can be viewed at www.bermudadocs.com.