Festivals are important events to extent the cinema culture. The film festivals, which are created with the support of various foundations and local administrations, can be formed with various programs. There are lots of national and international film festivals in Turkey. In some of them there are short movies ormovie competitions. In Eskisehir, which is auniversity, town andholding ahuge numberof students EskisehirFilm Festival is organizing at the first week of the may every year. It is the only international event that is organizing in the name of cinema at the city. Its aim is developing thecinemaculture. Festival draws theattention of peopleliving in thecity andtheyouth of theuniversity. TheAnadolu University supports organizing of the festival. Program is prepared by the lectures of the faculty of communication science department of cinema and television. At the festival, classics of cinema history, the movies picked from the world festivals, examples of animation, examples of movies shot at the last year of Turkish cinema, and short films are screened. During the festival international andnational directors, actors, andacademicians meet with the audiences. These audiences can also be people living in the city, like the students will work at the cinemaindustry. During the festival there are documents about the festival program andat the endof the festival there are some essays orarticle and news publishedabout the festival on press but the scientific researches are inadequate about festivals. There is any research to define the festival audiences andgain the understanding of how they make their choices. During the Eskisehir Film Festival, which is maintaining 10 years, a survey was carried out to realize how the audiences make their choices. In 500 questionnaires answered and the point of view of the spectators and their choices was tried to understand. In the concept of that survey all of the documents of the festivals were assessedso the datagainedfrom the questionnaires helpedto understandthe reasons of why spectators join the festival, in what circumstances spectators choice themovie andwhich parts draw an attention at the festival.