PATERNAL RITES won the Honorable Mention Jury Prize in the documentary category. Marc Smolowitz, the film's producer, was in attendance.

“By painting a portrait in fragments, filmmaker Jules Rosskam creates an extraordinarily intimate examination of the relationship between trauma and memory, the structuring power of absence, the development of his own trans masculinity and Jewish identity, and the healing power of being present.”
—Mocha Jean Herrup