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
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 19th Oct
11:15
Parent & Baby Only: 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 19th Oct
12:00
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 19th Oct
12:30
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 19th Oct
15:3020:30
Tue 20th Oct
17:45
Cotton Queen 15
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch Al-Sit.
Mon 19th Oct
15:45
Thu 22nd Oct
18:00
The Weight 15
When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition.
Mon 19th Oct
18:00
Wed 21st Oct
15:30
The Uprising 15
As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King's might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.
Mon 19th Oct
20:15
Thu 22nd Oct
14:55

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