Link is a German director who studied at the Film Academy in München, where she graduated with the film Sommertage (1990). With the film Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille, 1996) she earned an Oscar nomination in the category of Foreign Film, and won Bavarian Film Award, a silver German Film Award and a gold Guild Film Award. She also made Pünktchen und Anton (1999). In 2003, she won an Oscar in 2003 with her film Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika, 2001).