Zeka Laplaine (born 1960), sometimes credited as José Laplaine,
is a director and actor from
Ilebo
Ilebo, formerly known as Port-Francqui, is a town in Kasai province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying at the highest navigable point of the Kasaï River. It is an important transport hub for ferries to Kinshasa and trains to Lubumbashi. ...
in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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.
The child of a Portuguese father and Congolese mother,
he moved to Europe when he was 18.
His 1996
short film
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''Le Clandestin'' was featured at the 2010 Amakula International Film Festival in
Uganda
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.
He portrayed a
cowboy alongside
Danny Glover in ''Death in
Timbuktu
Timbuktu ( ; french: Tombouctou;
Koyra Chiini: ); tmh, label=Tuareg, script=Tfng, ⵜⵏⴱⴾⵜ, Tin Buqt a city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. The town is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrativ ...
'', a
film within a film
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in the
Council of Europe Film Award
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-winning film, ''
Bamako
Bamako ( bm, ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ ''Bàmakɔ̌'', ff, 𞤄𞤢𞤥𞤢𞤳𞤮 ''Bamako'') is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2009 population of 1,810,366 and an estimated 2022 population of 2.81 million. It is located on the Niger Rive ...
''.
Laplaine is a member of France's "Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs".
Laplaine's first short film was ''Le Clandestin'',
which he wrote, directed and acted in (playing a policeman in charge of a container dock in
Lisbon).
A
French production set in
Portugal
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,
''Le Clandestin'' examines African emigration and questions the dream of Europe as a "Northern Paradise" for
immigrants
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.
Filmography
Actor
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Democratic Republic of the Congo film directors
1960 births
Living people