The Carrboro Film Fest is coming up this weekend, starting Friday evening and running through Sunday afternoon at the Carrboro Century Center. Now in its 19th year, the event features exclusively Southern films in an effort to support what it describes as a “renaissance of Southern cinema.” Bryan Reklis, the director of the festival, discussed the event’s distinctly Southern identity. “Celebrate and interrogate Southern culture, that’s really what I view that we can do,” he said. “I think our job as a festival is to curate some of that great art that’s being made in the South and present it to our community to help start discussions about things.” Reklis said that the film selection committee received 201 submissions, from which they selected 38. “It’s not just about picking the best films, it’s about putting together really good blocks of films,” he said. “So we’ve got things that are gonna make you laugh, things that are gonna make you cry, things that will make you move to deep...