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.

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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Upcoming Descriptive Subtitles Screenings
The Christophers 15
The estranged children of a once great artist enlist Lori, a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases.
Sun 31st May
18:10
Parent & Baby ONLY: The Christophers no rating
Parent & Baby Screening: The estranged children of a once great artist enlist a young painter to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases.
Mon 1st Jun
12:00
The Devil Wears Prada 2 12A
Miranda Priestly navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing, facing off against Emily Charlton, her one-time assistant, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group.
Mon 1st Jun
12:45
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 1st Jun
15:1517:45
Tue 2nd Jun
20:30
Wed 3rd Jun
15:30
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu 12A
The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy.
Mon 1st Jun
17:0020:1513:45
NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World 12A
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Mon 1st Jun
20:00
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
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.