Bulletin + Assembly Milan — Omar Almahri, Moritz Keller, Tahiel Jimenez Medina...
DIRECTORS' LIBRARY
March 25, 2026
CREATIVE SHORT
Omar Almahri directs ‘Stillness’.
Capturing how life across the UAE and the Gulf continues under distant threat, holding onto what matters and choosing to move forward.
CAMPAIGN
Moritz Keller directs ‘Terrex x Shmoofoil’ for Adidas.
Skateboarding legend and artist Mark Gonzales brings his visual language to an outdoor capsule collection, blending skateboarding, art, and exploration.
NARRATIVE SHORT
Tahiel Jimenez Medina directs ‘Lengua’.
A haunting anxiety troubles a recently arrived immigrant before his first day of school in the United States.
Footnotes
New Directors/New Films 2026 — Celebrating its 55th edition, the New Directors/New Films festival showcases a wide-ranging group of films by emerging directors working at the vanguard of cinema.
MoMA ↗︎
Hollywood and The Adland Five — Christopher Nolan and cultural historian Christopher Frayling assess the impact of five British directors (Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, Ridley and Tony Scott) who stormed Hollywood in the late 1970s and early 1980s, having already revolutionised the world of advertising.
BBC SOUNDS ↗︎
What a Movie Set Looks Like When No One’s Performing — Atsushi Nishijima, known as Jima, has photographed some of the biggest films of the last decade, capturing actors and crew members in between takes, sometimes at sensitive, stressful moments.
THE NEW YORKER ↗︎
How a Lauded Texas Filmmaker Came to Direct a Star-Studded Film for Tecovas — Jeff Nichols brought Michael Shannon, Ryan Bingham, Hassie Harrison, and even Sissy Spacek into his homage to some of the best movies ever made in our state.
TEXAS MONTHLY ↗︎
The Surreal Life of Alejandro Jodorowsky — At 95, the legendary avant-garde filmmaker, most famous for his unfinished ‘Dune’, is finally looking back.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ↗︎
Our Narrative Prison — The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
AEON ↗︎
The Tree of Life Effect — The imagery of Terrence Malick’s 2011 masterpiece has borne plentiful fruit – for better or for worse.
LITTLE WHITE LIES ↗︎
What Creatives Think About The Brutal State of Freelance — Right now, something bigger than a seasonal slowdown seems to be happening. Creative Boom took the temperature of the creative community.
CREATIVE BOOM ↗︎
OpenAI Scraps Sora Video Platform Months After Launch — The app, once envisioned as a potential social network, allowed people to insert themselves into various pop-culture scenes.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ↗︎
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Assembly Milan
Assembly arrives in Milan, IT on March 31st. A format by Directors’ Library, developed in collaboration with Section80.
Assembly is not a panel, a screening or a showcase. It is a structured, closed-room conversation focused on process — the invisible layer of the work.
A curated group of filmmakers will gather at Section80 Bar to share research, doubts, unfinished ideas and real production questions.
No presentations.
No hierarchy.
No status performance.
Participation is free and open to all filmmakers.
Names are not announced in advance.
Spots are intentionally limited.
Register on the link below —
directorslibrary.com/assembly-registration/
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