Itinérances Film Festival In Alès Adds Subtitles, Audio Description, And Nîmes Bus

For eight years, the Itinérances film festival in Alès has offered screenings that are subtitled and audio-described for all audiences, and this year its program includes Camille redouble.

“- Published A 14-year-old girl who has been blind since birth had to make a 140-mile round trip to attend a cinema screening after struggling to find an accessible option closer to home”

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The festival embeds subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers using a color‑coding system, and it also provides audio description for blind and visually impaired people.

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Amélie, 29, vice-president of the Federation of the Blind, said, "you can go see a film even if you are blind."

The festival’s hall is equipped with a magnetic induction loop so people with hearing devices can receive an audio signal directly on their own device, and it also includes a bus departing from the Liberté bus stop in Nîmes on April 5 at 12:30 p.m. and returning after the screening in Alès.

In a separate film conversation, Justine Triet—Palme d'Or winner with Anatomy of a Fall—described how she built the courtroom story around sound and the child witness.

She said, "I was really eager to make another courtroom film, and to take this pretext to talk about the couple," and she added that putting Daniel at the center of the trial was the starting point.

Le Petit Bulletin Lyon

Triet also said, "If we sometimes forced realism, it's to make the story work," explaining that she made concessions such as having an attorney general step out for staging reasons.

The Le Petit Bulletin Lyon account frames the film as a courtroom film under the blind gaze of justice featuring a visually impaired child, with sound playing a crucial role.

In Northern Ireland, a 14-year-old girl named Eryn, blind since birth, made a 140-mile round trip to attend a cinema screening after struggling to find an accessible option closer to home.

“For eight years, the Itinérances film festival in Alès has offered screenings that are subtitled and audio-described for all audiences”

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Her family traveled to the Odeon cinema in Belfast over Easter because their local cinema IMC Cinemas Enniskillen did not offer audio description headsets, and she said, "A long way to travel just to watch a movie."

BBC News NI reported that Eryn relied on audio description because, as she put it, "you can't pick up the whole atmosphere through sound alone."

In Colombia, Noticias RCN described the Cine para Todos initiative, where blind and deaf attendees could choose between tablets or smart glasses with a sign language interpreter and receive audiodescription devices for screenings such as The Book of Life.