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: Tuner 15
A talented piano tuner's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking safes.
Mon 15th Jun
12:00
Backrooms 15
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
Mon 15th Jun
17:15
Tue 16th Jun
20:30
Eagles of the Republic 15
In Tarik Saleh’s new political thriller, a famous actor is forced to collaborate with the Egyptian authoritarian regime.
Mon 15th Jun
19:45
Wed 17th Jun
17:00
Disclosure Day 12A
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?
Mon 15th Jun
20:00
Sun 14th Jun
16:15
Mon 15th Jun
13:3016:45
Thu 18th Jun
13:30
Supergirl TBC
Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home.
Fri 26th Jun
20:30
Mon 29th Jun
14:2017:1020:15
Tue 30th Jun
14:15
Thu 2nd Jul
20:30
Parent & Baby ONLY: Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day 12A
Based on Virginia Woolf's funniest novel, Night & Day is an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage.
Mon 29th Jun
12:00
Parent & Baby ONLY: Supergirl 12A
When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance.
Mon 29th Jun
12:00
NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 15
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.
Mon 29th Jun
20:00
Mon 6th Jul
20:00

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