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
Ish 15
Twelve-year-old best friends, Ish and Maram wrestle to hold onto their friendship, in the wake of a traumatic police stop & search.
Sun 23rd Aug
15:50
Mon 24th Aug
13:15
The End of Oak Street 12A
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighbourhood to someplace unknown, a family soon discovers that their survival depends on them sticking together.
Sun 23rd Aug
20:15
Mon 24th Aug
14:2018:10
Wed 26th Aug
14:15
Coyote vs. Acme PG
After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.
Mon 24th Aug
10:4513:15
Minions & Monsters U
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together.
Mon 24th Aug
11:00
Spider-Man: Brand New Day 12A
A forgotten Peter Parker lives alone as a full-time Spider-Man until mounting pressure triggers a dangerous change and a powerful new enemy emerges.
Mon 24th Aug
11:15
Tue 25th Aug
17:30
Tony 15
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
Mon 24th Aug
15:4520:15
Thu 27th Aug
20:30
The Odyssey 15
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War.
Mon 24th Aug
16:45

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