Isn't your manager supposed to be a buffer between you and the director? Stay with your manager and if you feel the director is trying to make life harder for e

Isn't your manager supposed to be a buffer between you and the director? Stay with your manager and if you feel the director is trying to make life harder for either of you then leave the company. (What you described actually happened to me once. It took me a year to realise that the new director doesn't like me and is sabotaging my work. I left immediately once I saw that)