Access & accessibility

Descriptive subtitles

Descriptive subtitling is a service for hearing-impaired or deaf people.

Every Monday the Depot programme includes a selection of films with descriptive subtitles – a transcription of the film’s dialogue, in English, along the bottom of the screen. A description of the sounds in the film is also included. Caption subtitled screenings are helpful for people with a hearing impairment – and also for those who just struggle with strong English language accents.

Other performances with descriptive subtitles are scheduled throughout our weekly programme. These will change each week to offer a variety of descriptive subtitled screening times available for different films.

Our programme also includes many films subtitled into English from other languages. These may also be suitable for deaf or hearing-impaired audiences but won’t always include additional descriptions of sounds.

Please note: Descriptive subtitles are produced by the film distributors and, as it’s a costly process, not all distributors have a policy of providing caption subtitles for all of their films.

All auditoria are fitted with Williams Sound infrared hearing systems. Depot can provide special headphones, or you can connect your own hearing aid via a lanyard and receiver pack.

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For more information email or call 01273 525354

Upcoming Descriptive Subtitles Screenings
Parent & Baby ONLY: Wild Horse Nine 15
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ.
Mon 9th Nov
11:00
Primetime 15
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare.
Mon 9th Nov
12:45
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House PG
It's a matter of life and death for Alison, Mike, Mia and the Ghosts.
Mon 9th Nov
12:45
Wed 11th Nov
11:45
Wicker 15
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband.
Mon 9th Nov
15:0520:15
Thu 12th Nov
20:20
Fatherland 12A
Centred on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika - actress, writer and rally driver.
Mon 9th Nov
15:15
Tue 10th Nov
12:30
Wild Horse Nine 15
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ.
Mon 9th Nov
20:3014:4517:30
You Can See Everything 15
Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.
Mon 23rd Nov
17:00
Avengers: Doomsday 12A
Heroes from three different worlds must unite when they're thrust together to confront a catastrophic danger that could destroy everything they know.
Fri 18th Dec
16:20
Mon 21st Dec
12:3016:0519:45
Dune: Part Three TBC
Now a ruthless Emperor, Paul must face the consequences of his reign as old allies return, terrifying new threats emerge, and betrayal lurks in every shadow.
Sat 19th Dec
20:00
Mon 21st Dec
13:5517:0520:10

It is our policy that all our Monday screenings use descriptive subtitles where the distributors make the film available in that format.