MONTREAL — The world premiere of Ricardo Trogi’s 1981 will open the Montreal World Film Festival on Aug. 27, organizers said this week.

The autobiographical movie chronicles the Trogi family arriving in a new home in a Quebec City community. Ricardo, the sixth-grader of the family, promises all his more affluent classmates Playboy magazines to gain acceptance.

The film is produced by Nicole Robert of Go Films and stars Jean-Carl Boucher as young Ricardo, along with Sandrine Bisson and Claudio Colangelo.

It will be released by Alliance Vivafilm in theaters across Quebec on Sept. 4.

It is the third feature directed by Trogi, who won four Jutras for his feature Montreal-Quebec in 2003 and the Oliver prize for his second feature Horloge biologique (Dodging the Clock) in 2006.

The film festival runs until Sept. 7.