4.        Caroline Link

Caroline Link was born in Bad Nauheim in 1964. She attended the Academy of Television & Film (HFF/M) in Munich from 1986-1991. Her graduation film Sommertage (1991) won the Kodak Award at the Hof Film Festival. Her 1996 feature debut Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille) was nominated in 1998 for the Foreign Language OSCAR and received the Bavarian Film Award, the German Film Award in Silver and the Guild Film Award in Gold, among other commendations. Her other films include: the Erich Kaestner-adaptation Annaluise and Anton (Puenktchen und Anton, 1999), Kalle der Traeumer (TV, 1992), Glueck zum Anfassen (1989), Bunte Blumen (1988), and the OSCAR award-winning Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika, 2001) for which she also received German Film Awards for Best Film and Best director as well as the Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary in 2002.