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Link was born in 1964. She graduated from the University of Television and Film Munich, receiving the Kodak Award for her final project "Sommertage" in 1990. Since then, Link has been working on various award-winning films such as "Beyond Silence" and "A Year Ago in Winter", revealing a sensitive and moving perspective on the family struggles her characters often experience. Link is well-known for her third feature film "Nowhere in Africa", for which she received the Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film in 2003. We are happy to welcome her once again in Toronto with the North American premiere of her latest film "Exit Marrakech" after her TIFF galas of "A Year Ago in Winter" in 2008 and "Nowhere in Africa" in 2002. Link will be in conversation with Ruba Nadda, a Montréal-born, Toronto-based director and screenwriter. Nadda finished her studies at the prestigious NYU Tisch School of the Arts in Film Production and has already directed 17 films, among others "Cairo Time" and "Inescapable". At age 40 she has had over 20 retrospectives of her work shown in numerous cities and at notable film festivals. About "Exit Marrakech": On vacation in the Moroccan capital to visit his estranged theatre-director father (Ulrich Tukur), 17-year-old Ben (celebrated newcomer Samuel Schneider) finds himself fascinated by the bustling, colourful city — and by a beautiful young woman who hails from a far different world than his own. Thank you to our friends and partners at German Films and TIFF for their support. Part of the Goethe-Institut's focus on German Film.