This answer first appeared on Quora December 26, 2019.
Could it be Greedy Guts (2000)? The original title of the film is Otesánek[1]. It’s a Czech film, sort of a comedic horror.
A woman learns she cannot have children. Her husband, in an effort to comfort her, takes a tree root and makes it into a child.
The woman is rather unhinged and pretends it’s real. So much so, the root comes to life and needs a great deal of fuel in order to keep growing. That fuel happens to be people.
Footnotes
[1] Greedy Guts (2000) – IMDb
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