A Night at the Movies
🎬 Joy Will Prevail: A Story About Louis Kahn

⏰ Premiere at Philadelphia Film Festival
5:30pm - 7:30pm ET

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MAX KORMAN | USA | 2026 | 107 MIN | ENGLISH

Architect Louis Kahn (Griffin Dunne) reluctantly takes on a country home for a tenacious businessman, sparking an unlikely friendship and a project that challenges both men to reconsider how they want to live.

In 1971, celebrated Philadelphia-based architect Louis I. Kahn (Griffin Dunne) is designing monumental buildings around the world, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and watching some of his grandest visions stall or take on lives he never intended. The last thing he needs is another project, particularly a country house. But young father Steve Korman (Ben Rosenfield) won’t take no for an answer. Kahn eventually accepts the commission, returning to residential architecture for the first time in years and beginning an unexpected friendship that spans his life’s final chapter. Before designing a single room, he challenges Steve to answer a deceptively simple question: How does he want to live? As they search for an answer together, the house becomes a testing ground for Kahn’s belief that architecture begins with understanding the people who will inhabit it. Their collaboration also brings the aging architect face-to-face with his own complicated ideas about work, family, and the legacy he will leave behind. Filmed amid the Philadelphia-area buildings that shaped Kahn’s remarkable career and featuring an excellent supporting cast that includes Alexis Bledel and Jennifer Beals, Max Korman’s period drama finds an intimate human story within the spaces we create and the lives that ultimately give them meaning.

Cast: Griffin Dunne, Ben Rosenfield, Jennifer Beals, Alexis Bledel

A Night at the Movies
🎬 Joy Will Prevail: A Story About Louis Kahn

⏰ Premiere at Philadelphia Film Festival
2:15pm - 4:15pm ET

🔗 Buy tickets directly from Philadelphia Film Festival. Use CODE: JWPxPFF35

MAX KORMAN | USA | 2026 | 107 MIN | ENGLISH

Architect Louis Kahn (Griffin Dunne) reluctantly takes on a country home for a tenacious businessman, sparking an unlikely friendship and a project that challenges both men to reconsider how they want to live.

In 1971, celebrated Philadelphia-based architect Louis I. Kahn (Griffin Dunne) is designing monumental buildings around the world, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and watching some of his grandest visions stall or take on lives he never intended. The last thing he needs is another project, particularly a country house. But young father Steve Korman (Ben Rosenfield) won’t take no for an answer. Kahn eventually accepts the commission, returning to residential architecture for the first time in years and beginning an unexpected friendship that spans his life’s final chapter. Before designing a single room, he challenges Steve to answer a deceptively simple question: How does he want to live? As they search for an answer together, the house becomes a testing ground for Kahn’s belief that architecture begins with understanding the people who will inhabit it. Their collaboration also brings the aging architect face-to-face with his own complicated ideas about work, family, and the legacy he will leave behind. Filmed amid the Philadelphia-area buildings that shaped Kahn’s remarkable career and featuring an excellent supporting cast that includes Alexis Bledel and Jennifer Beals, Max Korman’s period drama finds an intimate human story within the spaces we create and the lives that ultimately give them meaning.

Cast: Griffin Dunne, Ben Rosenfield, Jennifer Beals, Alexis Bledel

AAPIDA Philadelphia and Docomomo Philadelphia: Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America, Private Group Tour with Curator
The Barnes Foundation
2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA

December 4, 2026, Friday

1st session: 4:00pm - 5:00pm ET with Curator Cindy Kang (limited tickets available)

2nd session: 3:00pm - 4:00pm ET with Barnes Docent

 
Join AAPIDA Philadelphia and Docomomo PHL for a private group tour with Barnes Curator, Cindy Kang, for the exhibition, Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America. Meet us at The Barnes Lobby at 3:45pm to get your reserved ticket and join us after the one-hour tour. Once the first tour sells out, there will be a second tour from 3:00 - 4:00pm with a Barnes Docent, meet us at the Lobby at 2:45pm.

 🔗 Sign up and register HERE.

From The Barnes Foundation:
Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America is a groundbreaking exhibition that reconsiders 20th-century art and design within the context of Japanese and Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the broader history of America. The exhibition showcases the works of two generations of artists affected by forced relocation and incarceration: sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), architect and furniture designer George Nakashima (1905–1990), sculptor Leo Amino (b. Taiwan, 1911–1989), graphic designer S. Neil Fujita (b. Territory of Hawaii, 1921–2010), fiber artist and weaver Kay Sekimachi (b. 1926), and artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013).

DINNER AFTER THE TOUR
Holiday Party
Dinner 6:00 - 8:00pm: Manong (Filipino Grill)
1833 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA
Note: 15 minute walk from The Barnes

Join us as we celebrate with members of AAPIDA Philadelphia and Docomomo Philadelphia at Manong.

All are welcome — members and non-members.
Limited seating for dinner.
Guests will pay the restaurant directly.

Event Disclaimer:
By attending this event, you agree to follow our code of conduct. We do not tolerate harassment, discrimination, or unsafe behavior. Organizers may remove any participant who breaks these rules or disrupts the event. Attendees removed for inappropriate behavior will not receive a refund.