Should I Stay or Should I Go? (2015)

Five theater groups from Sweden, France, Germany, Austria and Slovenia asked a question everyone at some point of life asks: "Should I stay or should I go?", and looked out for many different answers from people all over Europe: How do personal, financial or geographical surroundings, how does the environment in general influence someone's decision to go away or to stay in the same place. Why do we leave or don't? All groups looked deeper into one particular community in their home country: a very rural area in the north of Sweden, companies that have to economize in France, the Transgender scene in Germany, young educated people searching for perspectives in Slovenia and the complicated side effects of love in Austria. The artists went right there to interview people about their reasons to live their life the way they do. All findings and experiences of this research were brought together and inspired the stories of five feature film sequences which examine the question of when a person stays, where they are and why they want to leave the place where they live. Five directors in the five particular countries shot their parts with an international cast of the five theaters. For the whole shooting process the cast remained the same - while the characters may change. People in five countries ask themselves the important question about staying or leaving - in love, career, family, country, your own body.