The Visitor (2007) released in 2008

This has so many indie nominations in 2008 I want to bring you up to speed. Richard Jenkins (the dead dad in HBO's Six Feet Under as well as many other understated and underappreciated roles--I particularly liked him as the cop, Josh Brolin's gay partner, in the fabulously funny Flirting With Disaster (1996)) finally got to star as a widowed college professor who has been invisible so long that having a real emotion is difficult. When he enters his long-unoccupied NYC apartment he finds a couple, who are Syrian and Senegalese respectively, squatting there. Jenkins carries the movie with the able help of his supporting cast and wonderful music: the score by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek plus music by others.