The 10 best films new to me that I saw in 2012

Reluctantly, a dour long-distance truck driver agrees to give a lift to a Paraguayan single mother and her five-month-old daughter to Buenos Aires. Can the palpable silence soften up the taciturn trucker's sullen heart?

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.

Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.