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Below is Part 2 of my annual look at the films that have a shot at making the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist. There are 83 submissions this year with some truly remarkable films in the bunch — and no 100% frontrunner. Here’s a refresher on how the nine films are chosen for the shortlist which is expected to be revealed tomorrow: The phase one committee determines six of the candidates, and the other three entries are selected by the Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee. For the profiles below and yet to come, I spoke with the directors of the films about their inspirations and expectations. In many cases, I also checked in with the U.S. distributor about why they acquired the movies. Below is a look at the second group of four titles that have generated serious buzz over the past several weeks of screenings, Q&As and consulate lunches. For...

TORONTO -- The ReelWorld Film Festival, which is devoted to culturally and racially diverse films, unveiled its lineup Tuesday. The third edition of the Toronto event will open April 3 with the Mia Kirshner starrer Now & Forever and will close April 6 with director Ernest Dickerson's Good Fences, starring Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg. Other films to unspool at ReelWorld, which was founded and is organized by actress Tonya Lee Williams, include the North American premiere of the Bollywood hit Escape From Taliban: A True Story, by India's Ujjal Chatterjee, and Una Casa con Vista al Mar (A House With a View of the Sea), from Venezuela's Alberto Arvelo Mendoza. U.S. films in the lineup include Eric Byler's romantic drama Charlotte Sometimes; Rick Derby's Rocks With Wings, a documentary centering on a girl's basketball team on a New Mexican Navajo reservation; and Bobby Houston's documentary Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks. Among the 65 films that will unspool at the festival are 26 fiction features, 15 world premieres and 30 Canadian premieres. "This is a festival that wants to propel the careers of diversity actors and filmmakers and reflect the diversity of Canada on the big and small screen," Williams said at a news conference here. Raised in Toronto, Williams (The Young & the Restless) divides her time between acting in Los Angeles and business in Toronto, which includes a public relations agency and the ReelWorld Foundation. This year's festival will include a trade forum and gala evening screenings and will conclude with an awards presentation.