Zeka Laplaine

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". 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, Le Clandestin examines African emigration and questions the dream of Europe as a "Northern Paradise" for immigrants.

• Name — Zeka Leplaine • Born — 1960 • Occupation — Actor, director • Notable Works — Macadam Tribu

• Year — Film — Plot • 1996 — Le Clandestin — A young African man jumps out of a container at Lisbon harbour. Attempting to meet his cousin in town, he is pursued by a policeman. He never meets cousin, and eventually decides to return to Africa. • 1996 — Macadam Tribu — Set in Kinshasa, the film shows "unauthorised communities" forming within the official city, and the struggle of characters to survive. A community projecta theatrical production about popular rebellionprovides the backdrop to the fall of President Mobutu Sese Seko. • 2001 — Paris: XY • 2003 — Le Jardin de Papa — A French couple honeymoon in Dakar. • 2006 — Kinshasa Palace • 2007 — Le Lac Sacré

• Year — Film — Role • 1996 — Le Clandestin — A policeman. • 1996 — Terra Estrangeira — Loli • 2001 — Paris: XY — Max. • 2006 — Bamako by Abderrahmane Sissako — A cowboy. • 2007 — Teranga Blues by Moussa Sene Absa — Zéka.