Bee Entertainment’s Busan pitch deck is full of ghosts, but only one might be real.
Vietnamese horror Arithmadtic is the centerpiece of Bee Entertainment’s 2027 slate at Busan, where the company is pitching a bold new wave of genre films to international buyers. The psychological thriller, set in an elite boarding school with a Dark Academia veneer, stars Anh Thu and Lam Thanh My alongside Phuong Tra My, Chu Anh Tuan, and others.
Directed by Irving Ly — whose short Close the Eye to See won a Silver Kite at Vietnam’s 2025 Golden Kite Awards, the film opens January 2027. It follows a transfer student whose eerie connection to a teacher unravels as supernatural events expose the school’s hidden fractures. No official plot details have been released beyond that.
But the tone? Cold. Calculating. Like a math problem with no solution.
And a body count. Probably. Arithmadtic leads a slate of four feature films and three TV dramas. All set for 2027 releases, aimed at expanding Vietnam’s growing domestic dominance. In 2025, local films grossed over VND3 trillion ($114 million), outperforming Hollywood imports for the first time.
Now, Bee Entertainment wants that momentum overseas. Next up: The Step-Mother, a family drama from Tran Nhan Kien due in Q2. How to Find a Fortune in 60 Days, Pom Nguyen’s action-comedy-fantasy hybrid (Q3). And Dealing With a Ghost, Le Ha Nguyen’s horror rom-com, closing the year. On series, The Unrecognized Heir has already hit 1 billion social media views after airing on VTV9 since December 2025.
The ACFM runs through October 15. The question isn’t whether Vietnam’s genre boom will cross borders. It already has. The real test is whether audiences outside Hanoi will care about a ghost in a classroom that looks like it was designed by a goth librarian.
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