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Playing himself, the filmmaker drives a cab around Tehran engaging with a variety of passengers: a bootleg DVD seller, an injured man and his distraught wife, two elderly women in a rush.

“If I just create bootleg merch, then nobody wins, and I don’t prove my point that this is a very valuable and lucrative space,” she said.

His strengths are his mobility, being able to throw on the run, and finding different arm angles to make the pass when he rolls out of the pocket, the bootlegs.

He could throw across his body on a bootleg.

Lined at the entrance were tents stuffed with bootleg tour merch and fans seeking respite from the water.