Olivier Wurtz

In the middle of a New Year's Eve robbery, two petty thieves have an unexpected encounter.

Two girl-friends host a radio phone-in show in Paris.

A struggling Hong Kong painter, Yu, falls for a struggling gold digger, Yee, in France.

Taking as its departure point the 1993 opening of the Channel Tunnel, Là Bas is a playful burlesque on cultural difference, eccentricity and passion. Using different locations, Kötting knits together an imaginary tunnel, with tickets sold like a seaside attraction, through which one walks between England and France (the interior shots of the tunnel are of the Greenwich foot tunnel), and which is subject to random and sudden closure like many other British forms of transport.