Caroline Link

The Profile

German film director best known for Nowhere in Africa, an intimate family drama that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Caroline Link is a German film director. Her film Nowhere in Africa won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2003 ceremony. Critics and reviews (including DeBaser) also reference her earlier film Beyond Silence.

DeBaser's review praises Nowhere in Africa as Caroline Link's pinnacle — an intimate, emotionally intense family drama about exile and adaptation set in Kenya. The film is noted for its poetic inventiveness and earned the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003. Link's earlier film Beyond Silence is also mentioned as evidence of her filmmaking skill.