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.

Sign up here for our Access mailing list.

For more information email or call 01273 525354

Upcoming Descriptive Subtitles Screenings
Familiar Touch 12A
An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Sun 21st Jun
18:00
Mon 22nd Jun
15:45
Toy Story 5 (3D) PG
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially trickier.
Sun 21st Jun
19:45
Parent & Baby ONLY: Toy Story 5 PG
Parent and Baby Screening: When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially trickier.
Mon 22nd Jun
12:00
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 22nd Jun
13:00
Thu 25th Jun
13:00
Disclosure Day 12A
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?
Mon 22nd Jun
13:3016:4520:00
Wed 24th Jun
16:45
Toy Story 5 PG
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially trickier.
Mon 22nd Jun
15:1520:15
Tue 23rd Jun
15:00
Mon 22nd Jun
17:45
Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day 12A
Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel, Night & Day is an un-romantic comedy about a passionate astronomer.
Mon 22nd Jun
18:00
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
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
The Odyssey TBC
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War.
Sat 18th Jul
12:30
Mon 20th Jul
19:30
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.
Fri 31st Jul
16:35
Sun 2nd Aug
19:20
Mon 3rd Aug
13:1516:35
Tue 4th Aug
13:15
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (3D) 12A
3D screenings: 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 3rd Aug
20:00

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