| Romance Policial | |
| Director: | Jorge Durán |
| Producer: | Gisela Camara Gabriel Flores Durán Pedro Rossi |
| Starring: | Daniel de Oliveira Daniela Ramírez Álvaro Rudolphy |
| Cinematography: | Luís Abramo |
| Music: | Fabiano Krieger Lucas Marcier |
| Editing: | Pedro Durán Gabriel Flores Durán |
| Studio: | El Desierto Filmes Ceneca Produciones |
| Distributor: | Pandora Filmes |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Language: | Portuguese Spanish |
Memories of the Desert (Portuguese: Romance Policial) is a 2014 Brazilian-Chilean crime drama film directed and written by Jorge Durán. It stars Daniel de Oliveira as a young Brazilian writer named Antonio, who decides to go to the Atacama Desert in search of inspiration for a tale. Daniela Ramírez and Álvaro Rudolphy co-star in supporting roles. The film was first screened on 9 March 2014 at the Miami International Film Festival,[1] and was released theatrically in Brazil on 4 June 2015.
Antonio is a 30-year-old civil servant living in Rio de Janeiro, with a penchant for writing, who travels to the Atacama Desert in search of inspiration to write a novel. The arid and astonishing landscape leaves him in awe. One day, Antonio, hiking through the desert, hears suspicious noises and finds a dead man (whom he had met earlier in a bar). He is detained by Martínez, a local police officer, who forbids him to leave Chile or the village of San Pedro de Atacama, where he stays. Antonio also meets Florencia, a local bar-owner, with whom he develops a romantic relationship. The crime situation and his ongoing romance with Florencia help him write his tale and get mixed in it.