Everything Everywhere All at Once

Meet Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, who will talk about some of her sources of inspiration and how she helped create the hit game.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was the first release from French studio Sandfall Interactive and became one of the most talked-about, critically acclaimed and award-winning games of 2025. The game takes us into a beautiful, dark fantasy world where a mysterious painter wakes each year and paints a number, killing everyone who is exactly that age. An expedition sets out in an attempt to stop her.

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen worked in finance for many years before choosing a different path. Over a five-year period, she explored everything from self-defence to dance and NASA experiments, and also began writing. During the pandemic, she happened to get in touch with Guillaume Broche, who was looking for voice actors for a personal game he was developing on the side. She soon became involved in the game’s production, and she and Guillaume then began an entirely new collaboration, which became Clair Obscur.

The game’s story draws on Svedberg-Yen’s experiences and dreams, books she has read and TV series she has watched. She will talk more about this as she introduces this screening of The Daniels’ absurd drama Everything Everywhere All at Once. We meet Evelyn, a middle-aged laundromat owner who discovers that the fate of every world in an infinite multiverse rests on her weary shoulders.

The screening is supported by Institut français.