ABSTRACT: This article seeks to define the concept of the cinematic film and the criteria for its classification, because examining these two elements is important from multiple angles, including seeking to overcome the problem of discrepancy in defining concepts, translating them, framing them, and employing them in their correct cognitive context, and having an accurate awareness of the mechanisms of the cinematic film and what it shares in some or most of its components, in addition to Distinguishing between cinema as an art and discourse and its technical aspect.