Identity and adoption: ‘Found’ follows American teens as they return to China
In a scene from the new documentary “Found,” a baby in a white dress looks out from the arms of her adoptive mother to a woman in a flowered shirt who smiles, waves, and walks over to gently press her forehead against the child’s head.
The nanny is one of hundreds working in orphanages that brimmed with babies during China’s decadeslong one-child policy. These caretakers often came to love as their own the children they nurtured, who were intentionally left by their parents along busy streets or on the steps of government buildings so they’d be discovered.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Amanda Lipitz, “Found,” from Netflix, follows three blood-related cousins – one of them Ms. Lipitz’s niece – as
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