Before Born

{{short description|2006 film}}

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| name = Before Born

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| producer = Yi Changhuan

| writer = Qin Haiyan

| starring = Liao Zhong
Huang Guangliang
Xu Baihui
Huang Lu
Huang Xiaxi

| director = Zhang Ming

| music = Wen Zi

| editing = Bao Xiaowei

| cinematography = Xu Wei

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| released = {{Film date|2006|01|05}}

| runtime = 104 minutes

| language = Mandarin

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Before Born ({{lang-zh|s=结果|t=結|p=jiégǔo}}) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming. Only Zhang's third film in a decade, Before Born is a surreal mystery about modern Chinese life that has garnered comparisons to L'avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni's classic 1960 film.{{cite web|url=http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2006/berlin/asia_suchsland.htm |title=FIPRESCI - Festival Report - Berlin 06 - Asian films |author=Suchsland, Rüdiger |year=2006 |accessdate=2009-09-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123131249/http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2006/berlin/asia_suchsland.htm |archivedate=2008-11-23 }} The film tells the story of a private detective, Huang Guangliang, hired to gather evidence of an affair by a man named Li Chonggao. When he arrives in the coastal city of Beihai in search of his target, he discovers that he has disappeared and instead meets an enigmatic young woman who is also looking for Li.

Before Born screened at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival as part of its Forum program.