Caroline Link

Caroline Link (born June 2, 1964 in Bad Nauheim, Germany), is a German film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. From 1986 to 1990 she studied at the Munich Academy of Film and Television (HFF), and then worked as an assistant director and script writer.

Link’s early work includes the short film Bunte Blumen, from 1988. She was a co-director on the documentary film Das Glück zum Anfassen (1989). For Bavaria Film, she wrote two screenplays to the detective series Der Fahnder (The Investigators).

Link’s first feature film, Jenseits der Stille (Beyond Silence) in 1996 was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film five years before, and attracted attention for its portrayal of a family with deaf parents. Her second feature film was Annaluise and Anton (1999), based on a novel by Erich Kästner. Her third feature film, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) in 2001, adapted from the book by Stefanie Zweig and shot on location in Kenya, received the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film for that year.

Link lives with her partner, the film director Dominik Graf, and their daughter, who was born in 2002. —Wikipedia