Zeka Laplaine
Congolese director and actor · DR Congo · On the map · Directors · Born 1960 · age 66
Zeka Laplaine, sometimes credited as José Laplaine, is a director and actor from Ilebo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The child of a Portuguese father and Congolese mother, he moved to Europe when he was 18.
Zeka Laplaine is read about 3 times a day, in 10 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 23 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Astrid & RaphaëlleSeries, Agent INPS2007
BamakoFilm, Cow-boy2006
Kinshasa PalaceFilm, Director, Writer2005
The GardenFilm, Director, Writer2002(Paris: XY)Film, Director1996
Foreign LandFilm, LoliMacadam TribeFilm, 1996Director, Writer1995
The StowawayFilm, Director1993
Light TrapsFilm, Mauricio1992
La GamineFilm1960BornPeople around Zeka
Close ties
Habib Dembélé Zeka directed Macadam Tribu (1996)
Djibril Kouyaté Zeka directed Macadam Tribu (1996)
Walter Salles Directed Foreign Land (1996)
Abderrahmane Sissako Produced Bamako (2007)
António da Cunha Telles Produced Foreign Land (1996)
Daniela Thomas Directed Foreign Land (1996)
Ângelo Torres Also in Light Traps and Foreign Land
Hélène Diarra Also in Macadam Tribe and Bamako
Miguel Hurst Also in Light Traps and Foreign Land
Hassane Kassi Kouyaté Zeka directed Macadam Tribu (1996)
Filmography 9
16 credits on file
Television 1
About this person
His 1996 short film Le Clandestin was featured at the 2010 Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda. He portrayed a cowboy alongside Danny Glover in Death in Timbuktu, a film within a film in the Council of Europe Film Award-winning film, Bamako. Laplaine is a member of France's "Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs".
