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: Wicker 15
Parent and baby: On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, she commissions herself a husband.
Mon 2nd Nov
11:00
Sense and Sensibility U
An irresistible new take on Jane Austen's iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.
Mon 2nd Nov
12:30
Pressure 12A
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice.
Mon 2nd Nov
13:40
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 2nd Nov
15:2020:15
Fatherland 12A
Centred on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika - actress, writer and rally driver.
Mon 2nd Nov
16:00
The Social Reckoning 15
Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network.
Mon 2nd Nov
16:00
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 2nd Nov
17:45
Tue 3rd Nov
17:35
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House PG
It's a matter of life and death for Alison, Mike, Mia and the Ghosts.
Mon 2nd Nov
18:15
Wed 4th Nov
18:00
I Love Boosters 18
A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing from her stores and reselling them at a lower price - what they call 'fashion-forward philanthropy'.
Mon 2nd Nov
20:30
The Devils 18
In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun's witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.​​​​​​​
Mon 2nd Nov
20:30
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.