Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a CGI-animated film based on the successful PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII. It has been released on DVD and has been released on UMD disc for the PSP handheld console, as well as an extended edition titled Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, released on Blu-Ray Disc in April 2009. Its official theatrical release date was on September 10, 2005 as the grand public opening. It was released in Japan on September 14, 2005. The movie received the Honorary Maria Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cataluņa on October 15 2005.

The story began in Midgar, city of mako, where a corporate superpower known as shinra used its monopoly of mako energy to dominate all aspects

of life, securing political power in the process. However, mako energy was not the wellspring of happiness Shinra claimed to be, but rather the vitality of the planet itself, the source of life.

Some began to realize: If we let this continue the planet will die. So these individuals set up an anti-Shinra organization called Avalanche, and began resistance efforts using guerrilla tactics. Cloud Strife was hired by the Avalanche to bomb a mako reactor. The reactor strike awoke in cloud the need to confront the holes in his past and his very reasons for being. And that journey, perhaps too the heaviest toll.

Two years have passed, Though midgar, city of Mako, city of prosperity has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walks the road to reconstruction. However a mysterious illness called geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope. And so cloud, who walked away from the life of a hero to live in solitude, must step forward yet again.