Winner of a prestigious Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, German auteur Matthias Glasner"s brave and complex drama contemplates the terror of loneliness and whether love can be a salvation to damaged psyches. THE FREE WILL (a/k/a DER FREIE WILLE) stars co-writer Jurgen Vogel (whose raw performance won him Best Actor awards at both Tribeca and Chicago) as Theo, a convicted sexual predator who has just been released from psychiatric detention. His fear of women stirs a profound, unfulfilled longing within him, making his reintegration into society an unbearable ordeal. Can hope exist in his budding relationship with Nettie (Sabine Timoteo), herself a victim of abuse, as they embark on a journey to the limits of free will? With a slyly stylized balance of brutal suspense and hesitant hopefulness, Glasner"s emotional directness is never less than compassionate.